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Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Restoring entire Linux machine
> If possible i would like to hear more talk on doing something like the
> restore from live distro as doing reliable and non time consuming
> images is a bitch... Are there any docs or detailed procedures on how to
> res
Rob Morin wrote:
> Thanks for that... but just wondering how backuppc would restore if
> keys are not there, on the system with the live cd?
Then re-copy them from your server to the running environment of the
live cd. No big deal.
Perhaps you can build a custom live CD with a known public key i
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> here's the short version of how to do it:
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h
> client.example.tld -n -1 -s / / |gzip -1 |nc client.example.tld
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/targetdisk# nc -l -p | tar xzvp
>
> I might h
On 11/05 03:57 , Rob Morin wrote:
> I was just wondering how backuppc would be able to restore using the
> web gui as the bare metal machine would not know about the ssh keys and
> such... i have to put up a new server soon i would like to try it on
> that machine
ah. I see your problem.
Weli backup "/" on all my servers, all my server have software raid
mirror, i have had bad experiance with raid 5 so i am happy with
mirroring...
So i boot up with knoppix and then go to backupppc and simply do a
restore to the bare metal machine drive? All servers except my NFS have
one part
On 11/05 01:19 , Rob Morin wrote:
> Thanks for all the info i really appreciate it... So i am wondering
> then if its just not the best and quickest in the end to simply install
> a basic system via Debian's net install ad then restore backuppc over
> that? as that only takes 20 mins or so
Thanks for all the info i really appreciate it... So i am wondering
then if its just not the best and quickest in the end to simply install
a basic system via Debian's net install ad then restore backuppc over
that? as that only takes 20 mins or so
But another quick question is i have
Thanks for that... but just wondering how backuppc would restore if keys
are not there, on the system with the live cd?
Thanks for the help...
Rob Morin
Director of Technologies
Dido Internet Inc.
Montreal,Canada
http://www.dido.ca
514-990-
Toni Van Remortel wrote:
> Rob Morin wrote:
>> b
Rob Morin wrote:
> If possible i would like to hear more talk on doing something like the
> restore from live distro as doing reliable and non time consuming
> images is a bitch... Are there any docs or detailed procedures on how to
> restore to a blank hard drive via a complete back up. I back
Rob Morin wrote:
> but what would a recommend live cd be?
Anything descent that fits your pocket, like Damn Small Linux.
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Toni Van Remortel
Linux System Engineer @ Precision Operations NV
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If possible i would like to hear more talk on doing something like the
restore from live distro as doing reliable and non time consuming
images is a bitch... Are there any docs or detailed procedures on how to
restore to a blank hard drive via a complete back up. I backup up "/"
except for the
I've done bare-metal restores from backuppc several times. It works very
well with a Linux target.
- your original backup should take all of /, except for /proc/*, /sys/* and
probably /tmp/*, /var/tmp/*, and whatever else you don't care about
restoring (/var/cache/apt/archives/*, /var/log/*,
Nick Triantafillou wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Would the basic procedure of restoring a Linux machine be to re-install
> the base system, get backuppc working (ssh keys etc) then restore the
> folders one at a time (or somesuch) to the client machine?
>
> Or is some kind of re-imaging/netbootable restor
Hi all,
Would the basic procedure of restoring a Linux machine be to re-install
the base system, get backuppc working (ssh keys etc) then restore the
folders one at a time (or somesuch) to the client machine?
Or is some kind of re-imaging/netbootable restore method possible to
avoid that initi
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