>
> What are the best ways to do this ?
>
> I thought of:
>
> a) creating a gzipped tarfile on my jaz-drive (1 Gb, so I can't just copy it)
> (drawback: tar seems to have some quirks in that it doesn't always
> correctly restores permissions)
> b) reinstalling (drawback: needs reconfiguring too, things may accidentally
> be left out)
> c) using a backupprogram that allows compressed backups to the Jaz, then
> repartitioning, then restoring.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
This is a good question indeed. Actually, I just did this type
of thing myself 2 days ago.. and it actually went quite successfully
(with a couple of hic-cups that I finally ironed out). But,
I managed to back-up all my linux stuff, repartition, and then
reinstall everything. And so far, everything appears to be
working exactly the way I had it before.
The way I did it was to use cpio to backup all of my linux stuff.
I did come into a snag since I also made a backup of my /proc
directory (which you shouldn't really make a backup off because
that is just process memory I believe). So, during my reinstall
it hung when it got to the /proc directory. Fortunately, there
are ways with cpio to specify which files to restore so I just
restored everything except for /proc. The entire way that I
did it is as follows:
a) used cpio to back everything up (except /proc)
b) repartition
c) install base linux system
did this just to have a shell that I could reinstall
my backup
d) make boot disk and boot into linux
e) used cpio to reinstall stuff
Now, I don't know if this is the best approach. It might be
better to just execute a shell from the linux installation
screen, mount the partition you want, and then use cpio to
reinstall your backup. I'm not positive about the cpio options,
but, this might be a problem if you did a cpio backup
which include the "/" at the beginning (which I unfortunately
did). I think if I were to do it again I would use cpio
but instead backup the root directory by naming each of the
directories instead of using "/".
Also, for my setup I'm using loadlin so I had to change the
root partition device.
After all this, everything works great with no problems!
Good luck!
Richard..
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Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Manitoba - Canada
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