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On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:48:09 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: |
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> For 'quick-and-easy' restoring, I'm not aware of anything that really |
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> automates the process. But generally the steps are: |
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> 1. fdisk |
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> 2. mkfs |
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> 3. mount |
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> 4. restore files |
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> 5. chroot |
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> 6. install boot loader |
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> 7. reboot |
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Partition image will handle everything by stage 1 with a single command. |
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You may need to run the bootloader to set it up,although there is an |
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option in partimage to backup the MBR. |
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> One last thing, if you've only got a single CD/DVD drive, you are |
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> probably going to have an issue to have both the live CD and the backup |
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> media available, since you can't really eject the live CD to insert |
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> your backup disk. |
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Doesn't The Gentoo CD have an option to load the compressed filesystem |
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into RAM, so you can unmount the CD? If it doesn't, plenty of others do. |
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It doesn't have to be a Gentoo CD, just any live Cd containing the |
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necessary restore commands. |
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Another alternative is to include the Live CD components on the DVD, so |
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you have a full restore from a single bootable disc. This normally |
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involves copying the contents of the Live CD to the DVD image and using |
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the mkisofs arguments listed in the isolinux documentation to make it |
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bootable. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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