Re: [opensuse] deltarpm v3.4_36 appears broken for current 10.3 iso and deltaiso

On Monday 18 August 2008 09:00:27 pm Henare Degan wrote:
I don't mean to rub salt into the wound but shouldn't the backup be a
recent copy of your system, and therefore not need an OS reinstall or
major patching? ;)

The problem is that I did have backup, except for the /sys folder and some
other key files. Sure, I overwrote the root partition with the backup
information, but upon attempting a reboot the dmesg syslogs started piling up
and finally boot came to a halt. It was very unnerving to watch this and
realize that doing a cp -ruvp or cp -a command won't cut the mustard as far
as having a system with enough integrity to come back to life.

It didn't help to have the inodes clobbered, as I had to totally reformat the
partition then attempt the backup.

So I was forced to do a reinstall, then restore the home and 5 other
partitions, then do recompiles for the special software such as GP-Pari.


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