Re: (sweet recovery!) when rpm --rebuilddb doesn't work! what next?
From: Michael Fratoni (mfratoni_at_tuxfan.homeip.net)
Date: 09/12/03
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To: redhat-list@redhat.com Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:39:07 -0400
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On Thursday 11 September 2003 07:38 am, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:02:03AM -0400, Michael Fratoni wrote:
> > > I also find out that in SUSE Linux there's a time-stamped backups
> > > of the RPM database in /var/adm/backup/rpmdb and that you can just
> > > copy it to /var/lib/rpm, and everything gets back to normal! Anyway
> > > thanks a lot!
> >
> > Hrmm, not a bad idea. Simple enough to accomplish via a cron job.
> > You'd want to add some error checks and remove older backups, but
> > basically this should work:
>
> Personally, I find this to be a bad idea. Everything needs to be
> backed up, and that's a user's responsibility. First the distributor
> decides you need rpmdb backed up, and then the password and group
> files, and then configuration files, and then they don't stop until you
> no space for your backups.
I don't disagree.
> A good administrator will take backups of the important stuff. In my
> daily backups, I include /var.
There are plenty of cases where backups aren't done, or aren't done often
enough. (Think home user) I wasn't advocating Red Hat including a
function to back up the rpm database (or anything else), just a quick
script for a user to do it manually. Sure, you back up your data, and I
back up mine. There are plenty of cases where users don't create backups
of anything at all. In such a situation, a user created cron job to make
backups of the rpm database can't be a bad thing. If they loose a disk,
they are sunk anyway, but if they hose the rpm database, recovery is as
simple as a 'cp' command.
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