System Restore

Roy de la Garza rdelagarza at houston.rr.com
Fri Apr 28 02:43:45 UTC 2006


> System restore is really only needed because the Windows registry gets so
> messed up you need to roll back. In ubuntu programs can be fully uninstalled
> and config files set back to  how they were, so there's not much need.
> Keeping regular backups and backing up config files whenever you change them
> will accomplish the same thing

Actually, I have had several occasions when my Linux box has failed for
one reason or another (usually related to my ignorance) and I would have
killed for a system restore program. Chasing down config files is not
really feasible for the average user. Thanks for the response, though.

Roy





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