system restore for ubuntu -- few ideas.

Luis Murillo lmurillo at gmx.net
Fri May 20 18:35:45 UTC 2005


> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: conover at rahul.net (John Conover)
> An: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Betreff: Re: system restore for ubuntu -- few ideas.
> Datum: Wed, 18 May 2005 11:17:56 -0700
> 
> Robert Jameson writes:
> > 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.
> >
> 
> Probably everyone has their own way, but I personally don't like
> backing up to the same HD-the HD is the most failure prone device in a
> PC, (less than 5 years MTBF under "normal" desktop usage, according to
> most HD manufactures,) and the backups are lost, too, if the disk
> crashes. The PS is the next most failure prone device, (manufacturers
> claim a 5 year MTBF of 24/7 usage at 27C,) and if the PS fails, it
> will frequently take the HD with it.

Well actually the idea seems really good, and I guess what he wanted to say
was for the existance of a software similar to Norton GoBack, or at least
that's what I understood from what the original poster said :)

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-LMurillo

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