Use Relax-and-Recover (rear) as generic installer in the plain SUSE installation system
an invention by jsmeix
Updated over 5 years ago. 1 hackers ♥️.

The basic idea is is to boot the plain SUSE installation system (inst-sys) but to not let it run YaST.

Instead inst-sys runs Relax-and-Recover (rear) as generic installer that does the system installation.

This Hack Week project is the direct sucessor of "Generic system installation with the plain SUSE installation system" that is described at which emerged as spin-off from "Generic disaster recovery with the plain SUSE installation system" (see also ) which was my last Hack Week project

In contrast to "Generic system installation with the plain SUSE installation system" where a specific selfmade script was used to do the system installation now rear is used as generic installer.

The advantage of using rear as generic installer is that now the same well known Relax-and-Recover framework is used that is already well established and used for disaster recovery.

The intent behind using one same tool 'rear' both for the initial system installation and for disaster recovery is consistency and simplicity.

In contast to using one tool (YaST/AutoYaST) for the initial system installation and a totally different tool (Relax-and-Recover/rear) for disaster recovery that may recreate the system with (possibly subtle) differences, using one same tool both for the initial system installation and for disaster recovery provides consistent results and consistent behaviour for the system administrator and is simpler to maintain.

Looking for hackers with the skills:

rear disaster recovery

This project is part of:

Hack Week 13

Activity

  • about 9 years ago: jsmeix added keyword "recovery" to this project.
  • about 9 years ago: jsmeix added keyword "disaster" to this project.
  • about 9 years ago: jsmeix removed keyword disasterrecovery from this project.
  • about 9 years ago: jsmeix liked this project.
  • about 9 years ago: jsmeix added keyword "rear" to this project.
  • about 9 years ago: jsmeix added keyword "disasterrecovery" to this project.
  • about 9 years ago: jsmeix started this project.
  • about 9 years ago: jsmeix originated this project.


    • Comments

    • jsmeix
      about 9 years ago by jsmeix | Reply

      The Relax-and-Recover upstream issue is https://github.com/rear/rear/issues/732

    • jsmeix
      about 9 years ago by jsmeix | Reply

      The end-of-HackWeek-13 branch for the new install workflow in rear is https://github.com/jsmeix/rear/tree/firstworkinginstall_workflow

    • jsmeix
      almost 8 years ago by jsmeix | Reply

      I close this project because it is superseded by https://hackweek.suse.com/15/projects/2242 

      Relax-and-Recover: New kind of "backup" method: BACKUP=ZYPPER

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