Rob Owens grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > In another post you stated that you wanted to be able to restore an > entire system. Just keep in mind that there are things like /dev, > /proc, and the mbr that you will need to work around. It's not quite > as simple as backing up everything and then restoring everything.
Oh sure, that's a given. Things like /dev and /proc would be excluded from the save, anyway since they're dynamic and will just be recreated by the running system at boot time. I tend to exclude /tmp too, for fairly obvious reasons. :-) > My preferred recovery method is to install the OS from scratch, then > install all of my packages using dpkg --set-selections < mypackagelist > (see this page: > http://askubuntu.com/questions/101931/restoring-all-data-and-dependencies-from-dpkg-set-selections) > Then restore all my config files, /usr/local, /home, and so-on. And that may be the route I have to take. I like Acronis for my Windows machine because its install DVD is bootable, so it can be used to boot up and start restoring everything from the backup media to the main C: drive. I can boot from the Windows DVD to recreate the MBR of that disk easily enough. I'll look into the --set-selections thing you mention above; I'm going to assume there's a corresponding command that produces "mypackagelist," :-) so I suppose I could make it part of the backup procedure to make a new one of those with each backup run. Thanks for the suggestion! --Dave
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