Re: [gentoo-user] backup & restore solution?

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:48:09 +0200, Richard Fish wrote:

> For 'quick-and-easy' restoring, I'm not aware of anything that really 
> automates the process.  But generally the steps are:
> 
> 1. fdisk
> 2. mkfs
> 3. mount
> 4. restore files
> 5. chroot
> 6. install boot loader
> 7. reboot

Partition image will handle everything by stage 1 with a single command.
You may need to run the bootloader to set it up,although there is an
option in partimage to backup the MBR.

> One last thing, if you've only got a single CD/DVD drive, you are 
> probably going to have an issue to have both the live CD and the backup 
> media available, since you can't really eject the live CD to insert
> your backup disk.

Doesn't The Gentoo CD have an option to load the compressed filesystem
into RAM, so you can unmount the CD? If it doesn't, plenty of others do.
It doesn't have to be a Gentoo CD, just any live Cd containing the
necessary restore commands.

Another alternative is to include the Live CD components on the DVD, so
you have a full restore from a single bootable disc. This normally
involves copying the contents of the Live CD to the DVD image and using
the mkisofs arguments listed in the isolinux documentation to make it
bootable.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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