On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 22:08, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > I want to be able to quickly restore my system to a known working configuration from > a > burned CD or set of CDs. I currently backup my /home, /root, /etc, and MySQL dbs > everynight to a tape drive. I also have a second HD that I perform a complete backup > to > everynight using rsync. What I want to be able to do is rebuild the system in a > matter of > minutes similar to the way a stage 3 install works. In case the box catches on fire > or > something equally unlikely, I want to be able to get my system back up and running > quickly. > > What I was thinking about doing was using the quickpkg utility to create binary > packages > of everything installed on my system. I would then burn all the binary packages to a > CD. > In order to restore, I would boot from a LiveCD, create my partitions, extract a > stage 1 > or 2 tarball (if even needed), and then use emerge to re-install all the binary > packages > from my CD. I would then restore my data and configs from the tape backup. > > Would this work? Are there any major pitfalls anyone can see? Has anyone > successfully done > this kind of thing before?
Check partimage. I have used it more than once. One thing worth noting, after a restore I have had to do a manual "ldconfig" from a root console before major things (like x) will work. Not sure if it's generic or something obscure to my setup, but worth a note and saves some hair pulling.... -- Tom Wesley
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