One of the reasons I adopted Linux (Ubuntu Intrepid) was that, unlike Windows, it SUPPOSEDLY allowed one to fully back up the entire system, system files and all, and restore them. So if you installed files or configured your system and made mistakes, you revert to a previous system. That's the theory. The reality is a bitter disappointment.
I sudo su, change to / directory and use the following command and generate a valid tar backup: tar cvpjf /home/username/BackUp/Archives/total_backup.tar.bz2 --exclude="/home//username/HD_1" --exclude="/home//username/HD_2" --exclude="/home//username/.thumbnails" --exclude="/home//username/.mozilla/default/Cache" --exclude="/proc" --exclude="/lost+found" --exclude="/media" --exclude="/mnt" --exclude="/sys" / To restore, I sudo su, change to the / directory and use the following command: tar xvpjf /home/username/BackUp/Archives/total_backup.tar.bz2 -C / First problem. Upon reboot I get an "error 15" Can't find the grub files. They are there but It seems the problem may be with using UUIDs instead of (hd0) notation. The UUIDs change. What no-life propeller head chose to use UUIDs anyway? It gets worse. I tried booting from the distro DVD (Intrepid) and using grub to 'find /boot/grub/stage1'. grub finds it (hd0,5). That's the correct location. I use the sudo su, then the root (hd0,5) command. No error messages. I use the setup (hd0) command and the output says it found the /boot/grub/stage1 file and is writing (hd0)/boot/grub/menu/.lst. BUT... It does not write (hd0)/boot/grub/menu/.lst. Anywhere. I check the root drive and the old /boot/grub/menu/.lst is still there. Even if I rename it, no new menu.lst appears . What am I doing wrong? Or is Linux still not ready for prime time and only for hackers? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
