System Restore
Alan McKinnon
alan at linuxholdings.co.za
Fri Apr 28 15:16:20 UTC 2006
On Friday 28 April 2006 14:35, Scott wrote:
> Peter Clutton wrote:
> > 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
>
> But but but.. GNOME has a "registry"....
>
> It's goes by the name of "GConf". :-)
Ah, but that's not a very good parallel, unless you define a registry
as "a centralized place to store and retrieve configuration
information".
If I look into ~/.gconf I find a collection of human readable XML
files, all in the same place using a consistent format. Not too
different from /etc/ which has a collection of human readable text
files, all in the same place using mostly different formats. I can
back them up and restore them nicely whenever I want. I can even
break and fix them at will.
If I look into my Windows registry I find... no wait, let's not go
there. I still have the headache from the last time I tried that.
Windows needs a system restore because as has been shown time and
time again, the OS will self-destruct it's registry from a cron job
that no-one knows about. Linux doesn't need a system restore the same
way I'll don't need to restore my fingers onto the end of my hands
(note that I never wake up in the mornings to find my fingers where
my toes used to be).
To the original poster: the tool you want is called a backup.
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Alan McKinnon
alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
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