On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 22:32, R G wrote: > I do have a dedicated drive that is not part of the OS. I was hoping > that since I am doing a full backup that I could just reinstall the OS > and then restore over top of it what I had backed up. Or I was > thinking if there is a way I could use a live cd and setup all the > partitions like they where before on the main hdd's and then restore > the data from my backup hdd.
I periodically raid-mirror my archive partition to an external drive and have a laptop with backuppc installed where I can mount it for restores. I installed from source with almost everything under /opt/backuppc which is the archive mount point. You could do the same thing with your working disk assuming it survives whatever destroys the system by reinstalling a minimal system and backuppc first, then mounting the partition holding the old backups. If you are using a packaged version like the debian one that moves the configuration under /etc, be sure to copy your setup over to the archive partition so you'll be able to replace it quickly when rebuilding. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
