-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 29 May 2002 1:18 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
> I have never managed to get to grips with the linux method of OS > backups. > > It goes without saying they are big files, with the need to create > compressed multi CD writes. > > So how do you backup Linux OS's , write them to CD, and restore. I don't bother (but your needs may be different from mine) :) What I do is: - - make sure I save the list of packages chosen to floppy when installing Mandrake; - - copy all .rpm and .tar.gz files not into the Mandrake 8.2 baseline to CD-R every week; - - write a script which .tar.bz2s and encrypts settings I want to keep in /home, Mail directory etcetera then copies it to my FTP site (every day) and CD-R (every week); - - copy my ADSL modem drivers to CD-R as well. Then, when it comes to a reinstall, I: - - reformat and install Mandrake using the floppy to restore the package settings; - - copy the ADSL modem drivers from CD-R; - - ftp the kept settings, decrypt and decompress then run another script to put them back; - - do a few urpmi and configure/make/make install to install from the .rpm and .tar.gz files on CD-R. The whole reinstall from scratch takes about 45 minutes. I'm not clear why you need to have a byte-by-byte copy of the existing setup (which, in my case, would be a dreadful idea as my various experiments would probably have half-wrecked the configuration it was keeping :) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE89hylCv59vFiSU4YRAozNAKC5fOO5YgBuQvXxc2GhQRqUsz2pFgCfVKre YR6iE4jMkttP4ee8+VVUDzc= =I3kt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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