Ryan Isaacs wrote:
> I have a fresh LFS 6.4 installation, all I've done is add 1 user. Is
> there a preferred way to back it up (and restore)?
>
> Would it be sufficient to just use the liveCD, mount my paritition,
> and 'cp -ar', or do I need to do something more arcane like 'dd'?
It depends upo
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 04:21:59PM +, Daniel T. Nevistic wrote:
>
> tar cvzf back_up.tgz /bin /lib /usr /etc /boot /var need>
>
> Or cp -a, or dd, or whateva.
>
I recently had a hard drive go wonky on my host system. For a while I
could still access a lot of the data on it, and managed to
// Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:19:29 +
// From: richard.melvi...@ntlworld.com
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// Subject: Re: Backup of LFS
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// > I have a fresh LFS 6.4 installation, all I've done is add 1 user. Is
// > there a preferred way
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:14:45AM +0100, Tomáš Skočdopole wrote:
> Hi,
>
Please don't top post.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
(more comments below)
> If you have more space on your backup harddrive,
> the easiest way is use some liveCD and backup the whole harddrive.
> You should
> I have a fresh LFS 6.4 installation, all I've done is add 1 user. Is
> there a preferred way to back it up (and restore)?
>
> Would it be sufficient to just use the liveCD, mount my paritition,
> and 'cp -ar', or do I need to do something more arcane like 'dd'?
cp works well for me, but you don
Hi,
If you have more space on your backup harddrive,
the easiest way is use some liveCD and backup the whole harddrive.
You should do with this command:
dd if=/dev/sda | gzip > /mnt/path/to/image.gz
And command for restore
gzip -dc /mnt/path/to/image.gz | dd of=/dev/sda
Or you can backup
