system restore for ubuntu -- few ideas.

Robert Jameson rj at dawnshosting.com
Wed May 18 16:28:04 UTC 2005


I was thinking today about the possibility to make it so users can
restore back to a previous state -- this could be done using some
tracking information in dpkg and apt-get & synaptic.

How to handle backups? First you should be able to resolve the issue by
running a program from your system -> administration -> menu

During the install of ubuntu -- you would ideally that if you wanted to
allow full system restores -- if so. You will be presented with a option
to add a extra partition and set the size for the restore space (IE:
2GB). 

This partition should remain umounted at all times unless doing a
restore/backup and then it should umount. 


Optional: Add a entry in Grub menu.lst saying "System Restore" or
something along those lines and make it boot off the system restore
space and launch a gtk/qt program that starts the rollback process -- or
even better make the live cd "detect system restore partition's" and
when you run the livecd with a special boot command it starts up a
restore program and walks the users through sometimes to repairing there
desktop.


This would be great for OEM's -- or anyone!  this is nothing new, most
hardware vendors selling bundled computers including windows contain a
hidden partition for restores -- I just thought this would mainly be
useful for OEM providers to help relieve worries about selling computers
bundled with ubuntu containing system restore. 



Open to suggestions if this is feasible and if anyone else has any ideas
on implementing such a system.







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