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List:       jaxlug-list
Subject:    Re: Moving to Gentoo 64 Bit, back up, breaking and fixing
From:       "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt () obsidian-studios ! com>
Date:       2010-06-06 21:41:13
Message-ID: 1275860473.26608.44.camel () wlt ! obsidian-studios ! com
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On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 22:36 -0400, Ralph Figueroa wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Gentoo gives me an opportunity to mess around with the command line,

That should be true for any distro of Linux. Command like Google is your
friend ;)

>  but I know that I am going to break this system a million times. 

We tend to learn more from failure than success.

> However, I want to be able to have at the very least some semblance of
> stability on the desktop.

Gentoo and desktop stability is not really something that goes hand in
hand. Most breakage in Gentoo is seen on the desktop and not say on
servers, etc. Just where the borkage in foss tends to occur, video card
drivers, x, libraries for media, etc.

>  I would like to use the tar utility, and maybe see if I can use cron
> to automate back up tasks on the desktop.  What I would like to know
> if this is the most efficient way to achieve my back up goals? I refer
> to this link, its for Ubuntu, but I assume that I can grab cron and
> use within Gentoo. 

cron and tar should be generic to any *nix system, and surely any distro
of Linux should have tar, and some application/package providing cron.

> Also, can I have dual images of the same Gentoo distro within GRUB?
> So that I can have the one that is completly experiemental, and the
> other, where I do most of my dev work on, is the one I do few
> changes. 

Sure, more like partitions or even virtual machines if you like.
Depending on how you go about it. 

I would probably go with different partitions for a desktop. When ever
you have problems with experimental you can just boot into the other.
Then mount and chroot into the experimental one to fix, then reboot.
Same goes for when your running experiment, you can mount/chroot into
stable to keep it up to date.

Though might want to share some partitions depending on how much you
partition your system. Boot would be common, swap and tmp could be
shared as well. Only need a partition or partitions for the
rest /, /usr/ /var, etc

>  Of course I can go Debian if stability is really too much of concern,
> but where is the fun in that?

Depends on your definition on fun, what you want to learn, and what all
your wanting or trying to do :)

-- 
William L. Thomson Jr.
Obsidian-Studios, Inc.
http://www.obsidian-studios.com


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