I can confirm this kind of primitive cloning works perfectly. All you have to do during full backup is to omit "special" directories : - /proc - /tmp - /mnt => tar czf everything_on_hda.tar.gz --exclude /tmp --exclude /proc --exclude /mnt /
If your source drive (hda ?) is *very* huge/full, you can consider spliting backup into smaller parts ( < 4Go) to manage archives more easily (and allow network transfer of them from rescue mode in my particular case...) Dam On Tuesday 19 August 2003 22:43, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: > Wow, > > Can go with mindi/mondo (urpmi mind) would take care > of it. > > > Or, in my case, buy a cheapo drive $30.00 gives u 40Gb > nowadays, and > tar cf /dev/hdb/root.tar / > for i in /usr /var /opt /home /whateverfilesystem > do > tar cf /mnt/hdb/$i $i > done > > So if hda dies, all u do is replace it, and boot with > install disk, rescue mode, create ur new filesystems, > and restore from backup drive only the files/directory > into new location. > then run lilo -r /mnt/hdb/ > reboot with new drive. > > Works everytime for me. > > I even clone systems this way (primitive, but works!) > Thanks
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