On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:48:09 +0200, Richard Fish wrote:
> For 'quick-and-easy' restoring, I'm not aware of anything that really
> automates the process. But generally the steps are:
>
> 1. fdisk
> 2. mkfs
> 3. mount
> 4. restore files
> 5. chroot
> 6. install boot loader
> 7. reboot
Partition
Richard Fish wrote:
> Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote:
>
>>
>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>> /dev/hda1 * 63 979964 489951 83 Linux
>> #Command (m for help): q
>>
>> ##dd if=/dev/hda of=MBR-boot.backup bs=512 count=489951
>>
>>
>
> You misse
Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 63 979964 489951 83 Linux
#Command (m for help): q
##dd if=/dev/hda of=MBR-boot.backup bs=512 count=489951
You missed a few! :-)
The actual number of 512-byte bl
Richard Fish wrote:
> Jarry wrote:
>
>>
>> Is it not possible to archive MBR too? That way I could save 5. and
>> 6., and to automate it with some scripts...
>
>
>
> Technically, yes, I guess you could do this. Although, I don't know if
> I would really recommend it.
>
> If you are using a st
Jarry wrote:
Is it not possible to archive MBR too? That way I could save 5. and
6., and to automate it with some scripts...
Technically, yes, I guess you could do this. Although, I don't know if
I would really recommend it.
If you are using a stage 1.5 with grub, you would need to archi
Richard Fish wrote:
I am currently using 'dar' to backup to external USB hard disk.
I thought of this too, but I don't know how to "power-off" usb-disk
remotelly. On the other side, after burning and unmounting dvd-r,
dvd-drive stops spinning (kind of overheating protection)...
5. chroot, 6.
Jarry wrote:
Hi,
I am now looking for some sort of backup & restore solution which would
help me to get my gentoo-server up and running after fatal disk failure.
I want to burn at regular intervals compressed partition images of disk
on internal dvd/rw/ram (4.5 GB should be enough for archivin
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 19:24:06 +0200, Jarry wrote:
> But what I also need is fast and reliable restore function, for the case
> that all I have is a new replacement-disk, gentoo installation cd, and
> dvd/rw/ram with archived partition images (+ restore sw on floppy).
> Could you recommend me some s
On Saturday 30 July 2005 12:24 pm, Jarry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am now looking for some sort of backup & restore solution which would
> help me to get my gentoo-server up and running after fatal disk failure.
>
> I want to burn at regular intervals compressed partition images of disk
> on internal dvd/
Hi,
I am now looking for some sort of backup & restore solution which would
help me to get my gentoo-server up and running after fatal disk failure.
I want to burn at regular intervals compressed partition images of disk
on internal dvd/rw/ram (4.5 GB should be enough for archiving the whole
dis
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