Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] backup & restore solution?
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:29:49
Message-Id: 20050731212919.4f967358@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] backup & restore solution? by Richard Fish
1 On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:48:09 +0200, Richard Fish wrote:
2
3 > For 'quick-and-easy' restoring, I'm not aware of anything that really
4 > automates the process. But generally the steps are:
5 >
6 > 1. fdisk
7 > 2. mkfs
8 > 3. mount
9 > 4. restore files
10 > 5. chroot
11 > 6. install boot loader
12 > 7. reboot
13
14 Partition image will handle everything by stage 1 with a single command.
15 You may need to run the bootloader to set it up,although there is an
16 option in partimage to backup the MBR.
17
18 > One last thing, if you've only got a single CD/DVD drive, you are
19 > probably going to have an issue to have both the live CD and the backup
20 > media available, since you can't really eject the live CD to insert
21 > your backup disk.
22
23 Doesn't The Gentoo CD have an option to load the compressed filesystem
24 into RAM, so you can unmount the CD? If it doesn't, plenty of others do.
25 It doesn't have to be a Gentoo CD, just any live Cd containing the
26 necessary restore commands.
27
28 Another alternative is to include the Live CD components on the DVD, so
29 you have a full restore from a single bootable disc. This normally
30 involves copying the contents of the Live CD to the DVD image and using
31 the mkisofs arguments listed in the isolinux documentation to make it
32 bootable.
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35 --
36 Neil Bothwick
37
38 Did you know that eskimos have 17 different words for linguist ?