From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DzKRR-0005Ip-3x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:29:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6VKSvxK007901; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:28:57 GMT Received: from rutherford.zen.co.uk (rutherford.zen.co.uk [212.23.3.142]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6VKPOWX016218 for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:25:24 GMT Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by rutherford.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DzKNC-0002u2-QI for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:25:26 +0000 Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01B121405F4E for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:25:23 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:29:19 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] backup & restore solution? Message-ID: <20050731212919.4f967358@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <42ECBA79.2030309@asmallpond.org> References: <42EBB7B6.2010301@gmx.net> <42ECBA79.2030309@asmallpond.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13 (GTK+ 2.6.8; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Signature_Sun__31_Jul_2005_21_29_19_+0100_=4gmks5N3MYKlapG"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Rutherford-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: d2df7a5a-f880-4918-9e58-8407f7556c94 X-Archives-Hash: e09b7fa55816841781aaa8b6f2081620 --Signature_Sun__31_Jul_2005_21_29_19_+0100_=4gmks5N3MYKlapG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=20 > automates the process. But generally the steps are: >=20 > 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=20 > 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 > 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick Did you know that eskimos have 17 different words for linguist ? --Signature_Sun__31_Jul_2005_21_29_19_+0100_=4gmks5N3MYKlapG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC7TSlum4al0N1GQMRAg7xAKCW4fZJEMkvgHzWJjXlg7D0BPs69gCeJC71 OQ2j2ilgkbyHuLr3KKvzbB4= =gFGV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Sun__31_Jul_2005_21_29_19_+0100_=4gmks5N3MYKlapG-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list