Read the "Answer Guy" column in the latest Linux Gazette
(http://www.ssc.com/lg) for a thorough discussion of how to accomplish a
backup using cpio. I hope that's where I saw it :-). And I hope this
message makes it to the list OK...my first attempt to use netscape to
send mail.
hth; kevin
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>
> >
> > 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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