Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup failing with tar error 512

2012-04-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 9:38 PM, David Williams dwilli...@dtw-consulting.com wrote: Localhost that is set up to use sudo.  The backup runs through /var and /home as best I can tell, or it is failing at the very end of /home, not sure. Are you sure it is really running as root?   Maybe it

[BackupPC-users] Bare metal restores

2012-04-27 Thread Brad Alexander
Hey, I'm on the horns of a dilemma, as they say. I upgraded my workstation, and got this bright idea to downsize my hard drive, since I had to reinstall from scratch anyway...Well, it didn't work out so well, because I went from a (silent) Samsung to a (noisy) Maxtor. In any case, I can no longer

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bare metal restores

2012-04-27 Thread Kenneth L. Owen
Hi Brad, I am NOT much more than a neophyte on Linux, so take all of this with a grain of salt. Having run Windows for many years, I had Ghost for imaging drives. The earlier versions of Ghost could do ext2. I run an with /home on another drive formatted ext3. I run Ghost to image the ext2

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bare metal restores

2012-04-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Till Hofmann hofmannt...@googlemail.com wrote: You can change the UUIDs of your new drive so they match the ones of the old drive. tune2fs -U NEWUUID /dev/HD-PARTITION see man tune2fs . Just make sure you don't mix up the two drives since they will have

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bare metal restores

2012-04-27 Thread Brad Alexander
Grub uses them too...But I changed them in grub.cfg and fstab (and /etc/cryptab), and grub was still having issues...I tried both update-grub /dev/sda and dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64 (to rebuild the initramfs) and both gave me disk not found. --b On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 12:09 PM,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bare metal restores

2012-04-27 Thread Tim Fletcher
Try update-grub there is also a grub config generator but the name escapes me check the list of binaries in the grub package. -- Sent from a mobile device Tim Fletcher On 27 Apr 2012, at 17:16, Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote: Grub uses them too...But I changed them in grub.cfg and

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bare metal restores

2012-04-27 Thread Brad Alexander
I tried both, and both gave me the error, Tim. --b On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Tim Fletcher t...@night-shade.org.uk wrote: Try update-grub there is also a grub config generator but the name escapes me check the list of binaries in the grub package. -- Sent from a mobile device Tim

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bare metal restores

2012-04-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote: I tried both, and both gave me the error, Tim. Grub needs to know the drive and /boot partition according to bios concepts. It would only be able to use uuids for the root mount in the last stage. -- Les Mikesell

Re: [BackupPC-users] Bare metal restores

2012-04-27 Thread Arnold Krille
On Friday 27 April 2012 12:16:36 Brad Alexander wrote: Grub uses them too...But I changed them in grub.cfg and fstab (and /etc/cryptab), and grub was still having issues...I tried both update-grub /dev/sda and dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-3.2.0-2-amd64 (to rebuild the initramfs) and both gave