If I were to lose my main hard drive, I would like to have the opportunity to do the same as I can do using Windows: restore from my USB and have a working system.
If I were to rsync everything on the main drive (excluding the backup drive, of course and a few other directories) to my USB drive, could I restore using some CD based version of Linux e.g. Knoppix?
Todd
Hello Todd,
Give a look at the G4L project ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l ), maybe it is what you looking for...
Regards!
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 16:59 -0800, Todd Cary wrote:
If I were to lose my main hard drive, I would like to have the opportunity to do the same as I can do using Windows: restore from my USB and have a working system.
If I were to rsync everything on the main drive (excluding the backup drive, of course and a few other directories) to my USB drive, could I restore using some CD based version of Linux e.g. Knoppix?
Todd
What's wrong with dd, cpio, or tar?
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-----Original Message----- From: Rafael Azenha Aquini rafael@tchesoft.com.br Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:55:30 To:CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] The equivalent of Ghosting the system
Hello Todd,
Give a look at the G4L project ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l ), maybe it is what you looking for...
Regards!
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 16:59 -0800, Todd Cary wrote:
If I were to lose my main hard drive, I would like to have the opportunity to do the same as I can do using Windows: restore from my USB and have a working system.
If I were to rsync everything on the main drive (excluding the backup drive, of course and a few other directories) to my USB drive, could I restore using some CD based version of Linux e.g. Knoppix?
Todd
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Todd Cary wrote:
If I were to lose my main hard drive, I would like to have the opportunity to do the same as I can do using Windows: restore from my USB and have a working system.
If I were to rsync everything on the main drive (excluding the backup drive, of course and a few other directories) to my USB drive, could I restore using some CD based version of Linux e.g. Knoppix?
There is partimage-static on DAG's repo, but it cannot 'look' into a LVM partition, it seems. And I need that....
Todd
Todd Cary wrote:
If I were to lose my main hard drive, I would like to have the opportunity to do the same as I can do using Windows: restore from my USB and have a working system.
If I were to rsync everything on the main drive (excluding the backup drive, of course and a few other directories) to my USB drive, could I restore using some CD based version of Linux e.g. Knoppix?
I tend to use dump / restore for full filesystem backups. Probably something I got in the habit of doing when I was administrating Solaris systems (where its ufsdump, ufsrestore)
init 1 umount /boot /var /home dump 0uzf /mnt/root.dump.z / dump 0uzf /mnt/boot.dump.z /boot dump 0uzf /mnt/var.dump.z /var dump 0uzf /mnt/home.dump.z /home ...
to restore, boot a live or rescue CD, partition the new drive, mount the media with the dumps, and...
mkfs /dev/sda2 && mount /dev/sda2 /new cd /new && restore rvf /mnt/root.dump.z
mkfs /dev/sda1 && mount /dev/sda1 /new/boot cd /new/boot && restore rvf /mnt/boot.dump.z
mkfs /dev/sda3 && mount /dev/sda3 /new/var cd /new/var && restore rvf /mnt/var.dump.z
etc. you also need to ensure the master boot record and partition boot record are properly setup on the drive.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Todd Cary Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 8:00 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] The equivalent of Ghosting the system
If I were to lose my main hard drive, I would like to have the opportunity to do the same as I can do using Windows: restore from my USB and have a working system.
If I were to rsync everything on the main drive (excluding the backup drive, of course and a few other directories) to my USB drive, could I restore using some CD based version of Linux e.g. Knoppix?
Good old tar works well here. If you have a big enough USB drive, but you can tar up different parts of the tree onto different memory sticks.
Just boot into a recovery CD. Re-setup your partitions, mirrors etc. Format them. Un-tar into them. Run grub/lilo whatever to install the bootloader. Reboot, and voila!
To reduce time and size of backup/restore you can use rpm with the audit flag to find all files that have changed from the original rpm, tar only those. Save a list of RPMs installed, make a kickstart floppy of the list. Tar up user files. Re-install OS, using kickstart floppy. Un-tar the config files, un-tar the user files and away you go.
-Ross
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