Re: Backup and Restore Strategy

["John Fleming" <john@wa9als.com>]

I don't know how big your system is, but I have been very happy recently 
with Mondo.  I recently had occasion to test the bare-metal restore, and it 
worked perfectly, to a different machine even!  In less than an hour, I had 
a clone of the other box - everything - OS and data.  I'm on 
esting/Sarge.  - John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Patterson" <steve@patter.mine.nu>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: Backup and Restore Strategy


> Bob Freemer wrote:
> > I'd really like the ability to do a minimal debian reinstall and then
> > simply copy over appropriate files and do apt-get dist-upgrade or
> > something like that.  Modifying /etc/fstab might be required but other
> > than that any other issues to concern myself with?
>
> I usually back up /etc, /boot and anywhere else I've added data (/home
> and /usr/local/), plus a list of installed packages (dpkg
> --get-selections).  Its then relatively easy to wipe the system, install
> the base packages, feed in the old installed package list to install
> from and overwrite /etc with the backed-up version.
>
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