Re: System Reinstall Setup
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 12:34:48PM -0500, John Fleming wrote:
> > However, even before I got the CD's constructed, it occurred to me that
> > Knoppix has the CD mounted, and I have only one CD. This wouldn't work
> > as I originally intended. And sure enough, this is the case -- my
> > single CD is locked and won't unmount..
> >
> > So I'm wondering what would be the best method? I don't want to rely
> > upon a floppy boot disk. In my experience, those things fail faster
> > than you can write them.
>
> Have you considered Mondoarchive?
This is the package "mondo" in sid?
> It will make a complete backup to CDs
> that will be bootable. I've never had to do this, but supposedly you can
> bootup to your first CD, type "nuke", and it will restore bare metal to what
> you had at the time you made the backup. - John
This sounds good. Either this or the package "bootcd" that Adam Aube
suggested could be just the ticket.
Actually, I'm not so concerned about making the backups as just having
something that I can boot up and then remove the CD. To be able to do
this, I believe one would need a boot image that would build a ramdisk
and then put needed {/usr}/bin, /etc, /lib, /dev, and any other system
files onto the ramdisk, and have it mounted. Either that, or have a
boot CD with the files needed to create a bootable HD whereby one could
install the rest of the files from the HD.
I may have oversimplified it, but it seems that all that is required for
a backup system for my simple setup would be to make tar(s) of my
complete system, using tar's --listed-incremental option. Then
periodically make incremental backups.
In the event of a total HD loss, boot some linux rescue system, create
fresh, clean partitions, extract the full backup and then extract the
incrementals in order.
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