Fedora Core 3 (FC3): Can I create a system restore point?

[niceman]

Hello,

I finally have my MythTV box running the way I want it. Before I attempt any further customizations to it, I would like to create a restore point for the entire system, so if I screw anything up, I can at least rollback to a state that I know will work. Is this possible in FC3? If not, what exactly is necessary? Thanks.

[designbydave]

sounds like you want a system restore service like in windows xp. I have never heard of such a thing for linux, but then again i'm no linux expert.

You could always backup all of your configuration files.

cp configfile configfile.bak

[winter]

or create an image of your hard drive with dd dump it in a save location then restore if needed.

[n3wo]

Or remember to do make uninstall if it doesn't work. OR rpm -whatever OR manually edit any config files you manually edited in install. In my experience linux apps /drivers don't do much behind ur back. You can pretty much tell what was done and undo it. Not so w/WinXP in my experience.

[oz]

create an image of your hard drive with dd dump it in a save location then restore if needed.

Hey, niceman... Norton Ghost and Acronis TrueImage also work well for this purpose. I always make an image of my partitions after any important Linux installation. If you should goof things up, it only takes about 4 minutes to totally restore the image to be back to a fresh start.

[designbydave]

create an image of your hard drive with dd dump it in a save location then restore if needed.

Hey, niceman... Norton Ghost and Acronis TrueImage also work well for this purpose. I always make an image of my partitions after any important Linux installation. If you should goof things up, it only takes about 4 minutes to totally restore the image to be back to a fresh start.

^ yeah ghost is really good for making/restoring images.