I'm trying to develop a reliable backup method that does not use
proprietary tools or formats, and is free as in beer. I thought I had it,
but i just tried a restore, and it's a miserable failure. I wonder if
anyone here can point out the error of my ways.
I have a tar backup of the entire system, excluding /sys, /proc and /dev.
I have a tar backup of a bind-mount of /dev.
These were taken while the system was running, but quiet. I did it this
way because I cannot get the system to boot into single user mode. Putting
"single" on the end of the "linux" like results in a black screen.
I restored these, created /sys and /proc, and tried to boot the resulting
partition. It boots, but X does not come up, or even seem to try. I can
do a console login to my usual account, and stuff is there.
I'm quite clueless as to why this is happening. I could sure use some help.