The backup data is already on a removable 3TB and the data is on pair of LVM
2TB drives while the failing drive has /. All drives are already mounted by
UUID in fstab.
The issue seems to be the order in which users/groups are created during the
installation - I doubt that an identical set of packages is used in the various
metapackages in 8.04, 10.04, and 12.04 - thus generating mismatches in numeric
IDs when I try and restore the data from either the backups or the damaged disk.
>From previous advice I'm going to try and install the most basic version of
>12.04 possible, recover /etc/passwd, etc/group, and /etc/shadow and then add
>on the rest of the system. If that fails I'll likely say the heck with Ubuntu
>and move to OpenSUSE which is my preferred desktop OS anyway..
Thanx for the suggestions!
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 23:29:46 +1100
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Debian / Ubuntu restore solution?
On 21/12/13 00:39, Adam Hardy wrote:
Adam Goryachev on 12/12/2013 10:32 PM, wrote:
My suggestion, which is not worth much....
You should save your data in at least three places, so I assume
you are trying to save it to two, but both copies are on the
same drive.
I would suggest the following:
One physical HDD has all your OS + Data for normal day to day
use
One physical HDD has all your backuppc data (/var/lib/backuppc
on debian/ubuntu)
I am going to go with the option of using a USB HDD for the
backuppc data - I haven't looked at the config choices yet either
in Ubuntu or BackupPC - what would be easiest?
- configure Ubuntu to mount the one of the partitions on the USB
drive at /var/lib/backuppc (it's a 2TB drive thats also going to
have my OS clone from clonezilla on it)
- configure BackupPC to put backuppc data on the drive where the
systems mounts it by default (haven't tried it yet but I think
it's in /media somewhere)
Forget if anyone else answered this already, but in case you
haven't, then I would suggest the first option.
Getting ubuntu (linux) to mount a drive at a specific location is
pretty easy. Edit /etc/fstab, and copy one of the example lines
there:
/dev/sdb1 /var/lib/backuppc ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
Assuming you use ext4 and sdb is the USB drive. Probably better is
to find out the UUID, and specify that instead of /dev/sdb1:
UUID=a3d8c557-544e-3832-37b9-1913affd8ae2 /var/lib/backuppc ext4
defaults,noatime 0 1
Maybe someone else can comment on the best way to find out the UUID
for your drive/partition....
Regards,
Adam
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