Today i managed to break something in my distro, which my linux and google skills being not able to fix it, and i was wondering if I was about time to make a complete reinstall..
with the thought of reinstlling i thought to myself that i should need to back-up wine!
now firstly I need to ask if its possible to compress ./wine/ and replace it after i've reinstalled wine in a new clean system? is there anything that i need to pay special care of?
and secondly wouldnt be great if wine had a nice automated way of being compressed itself, or being able to create itself a nice backup .deb from its files? think of it as automated back up system where you could burn it to a dvd, and then re-install it including your applications?
seems pretty easy enough? what do you say? Wouldn't be easy enough to make a script for it?
Automated backup of wine? Is it possible?
Re: Automated backup of wine? Is it possible?
Yes.stimpak wrote:now firstly I need to ask if its possible to compress ./wine/ and replace it after i've reinstalled wine in a new clean system?
No if you use normal *NIX tools (tar, gzip, bzip, etc) that can archive / extract directories, files, symlinks.stimpak wrote:is there anything that i need to pay special care of?
The only thing you forgetting are desktop & menu links. You'll need ~/.config/menus and ~/.local dirs as well. The Wine relevant parts that is.
No, there are already lots of tools for that. No need to invent another wheel.stimpak wrote:and secondly wouldnt be great if wine had a nice automated way of being compressed itself
