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Randy Barlow schrieb: |
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> So I was an idiot when I set up my system and didn't use LVM. Now that |
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> I'm out of disk space on one of my drives and kicking myself, I want to |
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> do it without doing a reinstall. If I use tar -cvjpf |
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> oldSystemThatShouldStillWorkWhenUnTarred.tar.bz2 /, then setup LVM, then |
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> tar all that junk back to the new system via tar -xvpf |
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> oldSystemThatShouldStillWorkWhenUnTarred.tar.bz2 with / as my working |
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> directory, should that do the trick (with, of course, another go at |
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> grub-install)? Is the -p flag to tar enough to store ALL the necessary |
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> file system information? I just want to make sure I'm not forgetting |
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> anything... |
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> P.S. And I'll have to build LVM support into the kernel too... |
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> R |
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>From time to time i backup my complete system to avoid a reinstall after |
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failures. I used something like this and it worked for me (tested it |
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after a hard drive crash)! |
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tar --atime-preserve --same-owner --numeric-owner -Spvcjf back.tar.bz2 / |
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Maybe some flags are not necessary but --same owner would be a good |
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option to preserve the user and group permissions of the files too, as i |
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don't know if -p already covers this. |
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Also take care to mount all partitions you want to backup! |
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I don't know about lvm as i did not use a logical-volume-manager this |
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time and now i use lvm within evms. |
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