Hi Andrea: This is a great idea! I think we can definitely build upon this tool.
I would like to keep revision notes, and I do not see this capability with rdiff-backup, perhaps we can implement a sqlite backend (or a text file...?) to keep revision logs. Here are some ideas of operations: si_rci st: rdiff-backup --compare <image> <backup> si_rci log: rdiff-backup --list-increments <backup> si_rci ci: rdiff-backup <image> <backup> si_rci revert: rdiff-backup --restore <image> <backup> si_rci restore 1: rdiff-backup --force --restore-as-of 1B <backup> <image> ... (Here, rci stands for Revision Control for Image :-) ) I would also like to tie this in with a si_chroot wrapper, which basically runs like: si_chroot <image_name> and would wrap chroot. It will also ensure that once you exit from the chroot, your modifications are automatically checked in. I tested this on Fedora Core 6 VMWare on a 1GB image, the operations did not take too long. This really looks promising. I will try to do some tests tomorrow with real hardware... Sounds like an IRC brainstorming session is in order ;-) Cheers, Bernard On 2/9/07, Andrea Righi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bernard Li wrote: > > Does anybody have a suggestion on a revision control system for > > SystemImager images (chroot)? > > > > Does anybody even want such a feature? > > > > I am thinking along the lines of recording what files have been > > changed when and being able to roll back to previous revisions etc. > > You could keep entire backups of your entire image, but that eats up a > > lot of space quickly if your image is big. > > > > SVN seems like an overkill, since you probably just want the revision > > control bits to be local to the system (included in the image), plus > > it probably cannot handle file ownership correctly (not to mention > > treat special files in /dev). > > > > RCS may be a good way to implement this. Also some sort of > > LVM/snapshot mechanism can be used. > > > > Any thoughts on this topic? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Bernard > > > > Bernard, > > have you seen this? > > http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/index.html > > We could implement a versioning mechanism using this tool, maybe saving > incremental changes in /var/lib/systemimager/backups or similar... since > it supports also remote server backups the user could choose also to > push backups to an external machine to have a mirror image server, or > similar stuff... > > Moreover the package seems to be already included in SuSE, Fedora, > Debian, etc... > > See also this howto: http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_rdiff_backup > > Cheers, > -Andrea > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ sisuite-devel mailing list sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
