On November 17, 2020 4:07:52 PM EST, "Felix Kölzow" <felix.koelzow at gmx.de> wrote: >Maybe "rear" is an appropriate solution for you? > >https://relax-and-recover.org/ > >On 17/11/2020 18:23, Chris Schanzle via CentOS wrote: >> I would include LVM and mdadm info as well, since I use those >features. I encourage you to look at what long-lived tools, such as >clonezilla, write into their archive directories. It's impressive. >> >> If you zero out all free space on all of your HDD partitions (dd >bs=1M if=/dev/zero of=/path/deleteme; rm /path/deleteme) or use >'fstrim' for SSD's, you could use dd to image with fast & light >compression (lzop or my current favorite, pzstd) and get maximum >benefit of a bit-by-bit archival copy. >> >> >> On 11/16/20 11:02 PM, H wrote: >>> Short of backing up entire disks using dd, I'd like to collect all >required information to make sure I can restore partitions, disk >information, UUIDs and anything else required in the event of losing a >disk. >>> >>> So far I am collecting information from: >>> - fdisk -l >>> - blkid >>> - lsblk >>> - grub2-efi.cfg >>> - grub >>> - fstab >>> >>> Hoping that this would supply me with /all/ information to restore a >system - with the exception of installed operating system, apps and >data. >>> >>> I would appreciate any and all thoughts on the above! >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Thank you, that tool is new to me but looks very interesting!