On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:48:09 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > For 'quick-and-easy' restoring, I'm not aware of anything that really > automates the process. But generally the steps are: > > 1. fdisk > 2. mkfs > 3. mount > 4. restore files > 5. chroot > 6. install boot loader > 7. reboot
Partition image will handle everything by stage 1 with a single command. You may need to run the bootloader to set it up,although there is an option in partimage to backup the MBR. > One last thing, if you've only got a single CD/DVD drive, you are > probably going to have an issue to have both the live CD and the backup > media available, since you can't really eject the live CD to insert > your backup disk. Doesn't The Gentoo CD have an option to load the compressed filesystem into RAM, so you can unmount the CD? If it doesn't, plenty of others do. It doesn't have to be a Gentoo CD, just any live Cd containing the necessary restore commands. Another alternative is to include the Live CD components on the DVD, so you have a full restore from a single bootable disc. This normally involves copying the contents of the Live CD to the DVD image and using the mkisofs arguments listed in the isolinux documentation to make it bootable. -- Neil Bothwick Did you know that eskimos have 17 different words for linguist ?
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