[arch-general] Another Major glitch now

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 17:39 +0100, G. Schlisio wrote:
> Am 28.01.2012 17:35, schrieb P NIKOLIC:
> > Well it seems no help then     it seems parts are working parts are not  so how do i set about  uninstalling KDE 4.8 and reverting to the previous working version  or is 4.8 the new viersion now if so it has problems
> >
> > Pete .
> >
> >
> > --- On Sat, 28/1/12, P NIKOLIC<p.nikolic1 at btinternet.com>  wrote:
> >
> > From: P NIKOLIC<p.nikolic1 at btinternet.com>
> > Subject: [arch-general] Another Major glitch now
> > To: arch-general at archlinux.org
> > Date: Saturday, 28 January, 2012, 15:43
> >
> > I have just updated the system  now on kde4.8 but all i get is kmix and a white screen noting else works at all  even that took 12 mins to  come up   
> >     (ps the update was a normal pacman -Suy )
> >
> >
> > Pete   (sent from webamil on the lappy cus main machine is futzed )
> can you drop to a shell? if so, get some internet connection and 
> retrieve the old packages from http://arm.konnichi.com/2012/01/26/
> you'll find the kde packages in extra.
> you can just install them with a bit bash-hacking (awk, sed, wget, etc). 
> if you want hints, just ask.

For the future you should make backups using tar, when booted to another
Linux. Don't sync the backups, always make complete new ones and keep
them for a while, so you are able to go back to different versions, just
in case you shouldn't notice serious bugs directly after making changes.

I'm doing it by a "dirty" script, regarding to globbing it at least
isn't wise to use the asterisk.

#!/bin/sh
# sh ./bak_arch

BACKUP_NAME_ADD="2012-Jan-snap-16.bak"

clear
echo "We are going to backup Arch Linux"
echo "Ensure that /media/archlinux and /media/data2 are mounted."
echo "Press enter to continue."
read any_pushed_key

cd /media/archlinux
clear
echo "Arch Linux backup starting now."
tar czf /media/data2/archlinux/archlinux_$BACKUP_NAME_ADD.tar.gz *
 
clear
cd /media/data2/archlinux
ls archlinux_*.tar.gz -hAl

exit 0