On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:31:40AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Brad Sims wrote: > >I have a 300GB external HD that contains a current / with the > >exeption of /proc/ /tmp/ /mnt/ /dev/ and /sys/... > > > >Is it possible do a bare-metal restore using this? > > > >Also can you think of anything useful to add to this script? > > > <SNIP script> > > Have you considered switching to systemimager, dirvish, or another of > the very featureful rsync-based backup tools? > > -Roberto > > -- > Roberto C. Sanchez > http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto > > Hi Brad,
I'll add rsnapshot to Robertos useful suggestion and yes, it is
definitely possible to do a full restore with a backup of a root
partition; in fact it's my default way of installing a new system.
Here's a little reminder written only for myself, so no claim of
completeness:
+ clone system
· boot with knoppix
· rsync -avx [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ /mnt/newroot/
+ chroot /mnt/newroot/
· change /etc/hostname
· change /etc/network/interfaces
· change /etc/fstab
· change /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
· change /etc/lilo.conf
· run lilo
· reboot
Together with a NFS mounted home directory, I get machines cloned
really fast.
Hth
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