Re: [vox-tech] simple backup and restore
Tim Riley wrote: Jay Strauss wrote: Hi, I just want to do a simple backup, write the backup file to the system disk or an NFS mount. Then restore from that file. I'm not sure what I should backup. I figure I can exclude: /tmp /dev /mnt /proc If I do: cd / tar zcvf backup.tar.gz bin boot etc home initrd initrd.img lib media opt root sbin srv sys usr var vmlinuz How would I restore, such that I get the previous image, and not a combination of the restored files and the new files? Instead of backing up individual system files and directories, consider making an image backup of the entire filesystem: # dd if=/dev/hda1 bs=10k | gzip backup.dd.gz Then upon restore, you're guaranteed to get the previous image. Thanks Tim, I tried dd but it was taking forever. tar took 3.5 minutes to write and dd took 15 before I cancelled it. I'll try again with the bs=10k Jay ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] simple backup and restore
I use rsync to keep the entire root filesystem of several computers identical. See this post: http://lugod.org/mailinglists/archives/vox-tech/2004-03/msg00252.html You could do similar to backup your entire root. Jonathan Ken Herron wrote: You could use rsync to backup and restore. Rsync has flags to delete files from the destination that don't exist in the source. ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] simple backup and restore
Jonathan Stickel wrote: I use rsync to keep the entire root filesystem of several computers identical. See this post: http://lugod.org/mailinglists/archives/vox-tech/2004-03/msg00252.html You could do similar to backup your entire root. Jonathan Thanks Jonathan. I'll try that, thanks. Looks like rsync can do a lot thanks Jay ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
[vox-tech] simple backup and restore
Hi, I just want to do a simple backup, write the backup file to the system disk or an NFS mount. Then restore from that file. I'm not sure what I should backup. I figure I can exclude: /tmp /dev /mnt /proc If I do: cd / tar zcvf backup.tar.gz bin boot etc home initrd initrd.img lib media opt root sbin srv sys usr var vmlinuz How would I restore, such that I get the previous image, and not a combination of the restored files and the new files? What I want to do is install some software, do a backup, try installing some other software, restore to the old backup, try installing again... Thanks Jay ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
