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

08-16-2005	#1 (permalink)
niceman Just Joined! Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 2	Fedora Core 3 (FC3): Can I create a system restore point? 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.

08-16-2005	#2 (permalink)
designbydave Linux Newbie Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: California! Posts: 159	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 __________________ Registered Linux User # 392752 • \"pr0n\": An anagram of \"porn,\" possibly indicating the use of pornography.

08-16-2005	#3 (permalink)
winter Linux User Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 369	or create an image of your hard drive with dd dump it in a save location then restore if needed. __________________ All i want for christmas is a new liver....a second chance to get afflicted with Cirrhosis

08-17-2005	#4 (permalink)
n3wo Linux Newbie Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 220	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. __________________ N3WO There are 10 types of people; those who count in binary and those who don\'t...

08-17-2005

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ozar

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Originally Posted by winter

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.