There are a number of ways you can go about backing up your system, depending on what type of backup media you have available. The restoration procedure would depend on the backup method. It would be entirely possible to simply copy the file system onto a DVD (or a number of DVDs, depending of the file system size, and then to restore the file system from that by using some kind of rescue disk to boot with and then copying over the files. In order for it to work though, you would have to make sure that ownerships, file permissions, and file-links are preserved when you create the backup. You would have to re-install lilo after doing this if you use the lilo boot-loader (This might or might not be necessary if you use GRUB depending on what you did to the boot sectors and if you moved Linux to a different partition). Since I only have a CD-RW to back up my system, I use a program called Mondo backup to get the job done. It will compress files before they are written onto the disks and can have a backup span many disks. It also has built-in restore functions and can be used for DVDs too
Yossi On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 07:37, Erez Boym wrote: > Hi, > > What would be the way to backup an entire system ? > > I have a server which I need too backup, a complete > backup setups, *-conf, data, everything and then to > easily rebuild the entire server back from scratch. > > Would it be enough to copy the entire file system on > to DVDs, Tape etc. and then reinstall Linux and copy > the entire file system back in or do I need a tool > like "Ghost" ? > > Erez > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More > http://faith.yahoo.com > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
