Thread: [Announce] BackupMenu - OS backup & restore | New version - Jul 9th(v1.1)
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sethkha is offline sethkha
2011-02-26 , 18:36
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#620
... flu ... haven't been doing much.
OK didn't want to appear impatient

If you restore rootfs without restoring /opt, you'll have a lot of invalid package metadata. The system will be in an ugly, inconsistent state.
I see no use in restoring rootfs or opt separately. It could work or not. If you had to carry the kilobytes by hand this would be an option

So possibilities include:

Only /home/user (ie. just preferences)
Only rootfs, /opt
rootfs, /opt and /home/user

Does that make sense?
I think this would be the best solution.

I'm not sure if these backups would be compatible with the way BackupMenu works (ie., I think it rm -r's /home before restoring the optfs backup), so it would take some changes to BackupMenu itself before my script could produce anything useful.
I hope RobbieThe1st will answer, as the question goes to him too. I am aware that BackupMenu has to be changed for that.