On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 01:27:40PM +0200, Konrad Koller wrote: > ... There is a lot of documentation about the saving > process, but documentation about restoring is scarce. ...
Look at the wiki. There may also be some PDFs of the three part article I wrote for the now-defunct Sysadmin magazine, but I have done test (and real, sadly) restores. If the articles aren't there, please try contacting Rikki Ensley, my former editor and now at Linux World (IIRC), and find out what happened to the content, and get permission to put it on the dirvish wiki. If you are backing up correctly, your complete file system is ready to copy (back) with the rsync command, /almost/ identical except for the time stamps on the symbolic links. The main issues are (1) deciding which images to restore from, and (2) setting up the boot menu and grub. With newer Ubuntu and grub 2, disk setup has probably changed radically. Which images to use are a judgment call. I tend to restore because of security failures or bad installs, and deciding what state I want my machine in after a restore can be tricky. But I am in the midst of 18 hour work days, so I don't have time to help you further. Hopefully the rest of the list, and especially the Debian/Ubuntu folk, can help you further. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
