On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 07:13:46AM -0500, Blair Mason wrote:
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> Your best bet would probably be rsync. You can use it for pretty much
> anything... Basically, you use `rsync file dest`. You also probably want the
> -avz options. So, the easiest solution is to just do something akin to the
> following:
>
> 1. Mount the backup media (I will assume /mnt/bkup, adjust accordingly)
> 2. run something like this:
> rsync -avz / /mnt/bkup --exclude /mnt/bkup
This would keep the backup on the hard drive. Not a good idea in case of
a disk failure. Better to a USB drive.
> or, if backing up to a server over ssh
> rsync -avz -e ssh / user@hostname:~/backup
>
> A restore is as simple booting live media, mounting all your drives the in the
> same structure (say on /mnt/restore), and then
> rsync -av /mnt/bkup /mnt/restore
Wouldn't that dump the entire system into /mnt/restore?
I'll take this opportunity to reveal my ignorance. Up until now I've
never had to restore an entire system. What would happen if I ran, on a
clean install:
rsync -avz /media/disk/backup /? Would that repopulate the existing
directories or would it install the entire system in /, duplicating the
existing directories?
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