On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 07:19:52PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > 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. > Check the permissions on /tmp. It should be drwxrwxrwt. Without the 't' at the end, stuff like X logins won't work (in my experience).
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