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On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 23:52:53 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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>> > As an added note on this, rsync's --one-file-system (-x) flag is handy |
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>> > for avoiding grabbing unneeded things, but will typically leave you |
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>> > without the base few device nodes needed to boot the backup, those can |
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>> > either be grabbed from a stage3, or created with (courtesy of Linux |
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>> > From Scratch's section "6.2.1. Creating Initial Device Nodes"): |
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>> > mknod -m 600 ${backup}/dev/console c 5 1 |
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>> > mknod -m 666 ${backup}/dev/null c 1 3 |
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>> ... or just add another rsync invocation to backup /dev ... |
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> That won't work because it will backup the full devfs mounted on /dev, |
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> not the files that exist in the directory itself. |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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> Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular? |
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Thanks for all the ideas. As I've not done this sort of thing before |
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every one of them has been worth my time thinking about. |
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I ended up going a slightly different direction, only made possible by |
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how little disk space costs these days. Here's what I did: |
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1) As a chroot, on the live system I created a new Gentoo install. |
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This is just a very basic single disk partition type install as per |
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the Gentoo install guide. No apps, no KDE, nothing. Just the basic |
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stuff. |
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2) Once that install was up & running I copied the server's world |
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file, /etc/portage/package.*, /etc/conf.d, /etc/X/xorg.conf & a few |
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other things into this new install and ran emerge -ek @world to get it |
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up and running. |
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3) When all of that was complete and functioning, at least in the |
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chroot, I then took the chroot offline and used rsync to get the |
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chroot installed copied to the external drive. |
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4) WIth the rsync complete I then took a cut at modifying /etc/fstab |
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to be correct for booting from the external drive. Not sure about this |
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step at this time as I don't know for sure how the machine will name |
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the external drive. |
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I'm now looking to get /boot copied to the external drive, get grub |
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installed, and then see if I can boot using that drive. |
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Again, thanks for the ideas and keep 'em coming if you have more. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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