Just tried this. Put it in the gimp plugin folder in home dir and it appeared at the bottom of the "filters" list when I restarted gimp. Pardus 2009.2.

Thanks a lot. Got it installed but updatedb -U doesn't work, says it requires an argument but I don't know what to put. Any ideas?

Oh, right. Thanks for the information. Strange that they left P2011.1 without any version of locate at all. It's not exactly a new program.

You're welcome atolboo. Though it seems that fsarchiver is of no use to you at the moment because it doesn't (as far as I can see) work across a network. Maybe something for the future if the author implements such a feature.

For example:

Ability to restore the filesystem to a partition which is smaller than the original.

Ability to restore the filesystem to a partition which is bigger than the original without resizing.

Checksumming of the data and ability to restore corrupt archives, it will skip the corrupt file.

Ability to encrypt the data with a password.

It can restore the data on a different file-system, it creates this on restore, if wanted.

It can save multiple file-systems in one archive .

Ability to do multi-threaded compression.

Hmm. even though mlocate is listed as being in the repo:

http://packages.pardus.org.tr/info/2011/testing/binaries.html

pisi does not find it.

Does anyone else have it or is able to install it in their 2011.1 install?

I need this because I don't like the built in indexing tool and Dolphin's find function is badly crippled compared to the one in P2009.2.

Yes, and with some advantages.

atolboo, these two programs are not the same type of thing at all.

Yes, it does. Just the thing for swapping between different versions of Pardus to compare stuff, and of course, for partition backups. I'm impressed with just how quick the restore operation is.

No, not that I'm aware of.

Hi,

fsarchiver is an alternative tool that will do what you want:

http://www.fsarchiver.org/Main_Page

This will backup and restore the partition file-system, it's pretty easy to use and works really well. It has some very nice features too. Have a read through the pages on the website and if you have any questions I'll be happy to help if I can. The best way to use it is to get the latest version of SystemRescueCD, which includes fsarchiver and all the file-system tools it needs:

http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page

One very nice feature is that it can restore to a partition that is smaller than the partition you backed up, just as long as there is room for the actual data.

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Thanks, yes, I could try those but I think I will stick with Pardus and KDE as I have come to like them quite a bit.

I reloaded my image of P2011.1 on my laptop and surprisingly, if I enable Desktop Effects/compositing, the GUI is much smoother when moving windows etc. I haven't got enough memory to keep it like this though so will have to run it with Desktop Effects/compositing turned off and put up with the edges off windows breaking up when they are moved. Must be something to do with Kwin I guess because this doesn't happen with P2009.2 which is using the same graphics driver. Overall, 2011.1 is much more resource hungry and runs quite a bit slower on my machine than P2009.2. Plus, P2011.1 will not install, I had to install P2011 and then update to P 2011.1.

Well that's disappointing, P2009.2 works great whilst P2011.1 seems more like a testing version. Still, there's no reason I can't keep using P2009.2... is there? Oh, even security fixes stop at the end of August, what a downer


No thanks, not for me.

Yes, of course, that's what I meant to say.


Well that's a relief! 

Unfortunately, I cannot afford to add more memory and to be honest, as things stand at the moment, I much prefer P2009.2 on my laptop.