Thanks to everybody who has responded so far! Your comments are very helpful. I'll respond more comprehensively later, but I wanted to address this one first:
On November 10, 2015, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: >I'm surprised to hear so many people saying they've never used dump & >restore. If you backup using rsync/rsnapshot/tar/whatever, you're >able to restore a system by reinstalling the OS manually, and >reinstalling the same package list manually, and reconfiguring >everything manually (or restoring /etc and hoping no package versions >have changed anything meaningful) ... Is so much manual work actually necessary? I've personally done several full restores with rsync to a freshly formatted disk like this: 1. Boot on Knoppix or other "live" CD 2. rsync everything from the backup medium to the new disk (using the correct options to preserve ownership, restore devices & symlinks, etc.) 3. Run grub Am I missing something? The restored systems seem to run fine. -- Dan Barrett [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
