On Mon, 10 May 2010 14:02:53 +0200, "Boniforti Flavio" <fla...@piramide.ch> wrote: > Hello list... > > I was wondering if I may be doing some sort of "bare metal restore" of a > Linux server, if I'd be backing it up *completely* on my backuppc > server.
Theoretically, a "bare-metal" restore should be possible by backing up the entire filesystem. The restore procedure to a new piece of bare-metal would be: 1. Boot from rescue media 2. Partition the new disk and mkfs it 3. Restore the server image to the new disk (either by networked rsync or untar'ing a tarball downloaded from the backuppc restore interface) 4. chroot into the restored disk and install grub (bootloader) 5. exit chroot, unmount new disk and reboot the system In practice though, I've found it takes lots of tries to perfect the above procedure and it's often easier to re-install the base OS and just restore critical config files, application files and data to the box. Bare-metal restores *sound* sexy, but really they're often just not useful. -Josh -- -------------------------------------------------------- Joshua Malone Systems Administrator (jmal...@nrao.edu) NRAO Charlottesville 434-296-0263 www.cv.nrao.edu 434-249-5699 (mobile) BOFH excuse #360: Your parity check is overdrawn and you're out of cache. -------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/