On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Bruno Wolff III <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 22:19:04 +0000, > Jasper Hartline <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The mkbackup.py script does not do that, it simply would create a >> LiveCD/DVD out of the current installed system as a means for a Live >> bootable backup image, which with Anaconda, can be reinstalled to a >> machine in case of disk failure or other problems. > > That's a pretty neat feature. It even gives you a good way to test that > your backups work. You'd still want to have some incremental backups to > save space. > > This might be worth calling a feature for F15.
Ok. I thought it was pretty neat too, you really have some range of motion in your backups when and if you can do it this way, instead of you know, the random disk-backup image file laying around on CD. The only really limitation I see it has, is the fact, a DVD is 4.7GB. This means, if we squash the root filesystem of any given system, files there must not be larger than the maximum of what will fit squashed in 4.7GB. Smaller of course is not an issue, but until Blueray is more popular.. I think this Live backup media limitation would need to be limited to a single DVD size. There may be ways around this, maybe not. I will be at least working on getting some base level functionality working with it here in the coming days and would be glad to hear suggestions. -- livecd mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd
