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Whats the best way to backup gentoox? ** Native Install **
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2003 8:59 pm
by scoobydu
Would like to backup the system.
Is it as simple as copying the drive with gentoox on?
Any help would be appreciated
cheers
scooby
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2003 9:23 pm
by ShALLaX
To backup your Gentoox installation, you just need to save a copy of the "rootfs", "initrd", "vmlinuz" and "linuxboot.cfg" files. If anything goes wrong with your installation, just delete these files, then reupload your saved copies!
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2003 10:05 pm
by scoobydu
Sounds good, thanks!
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 12:50 am
by Scocou
If you're concerned with storage space, it might be a good idea to
rm the contents of /usr/portage/distfiles beforehand. If you plan on later compressing the rootfs you will get a tighter archive, as these files (mostly) have already been compressed (and are easily replaced).
to delete the archives and
to get them
all back, but don't do that, it's hard on the mirrors! They will just be downloaded as needed.
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 9:54 am
by scoobydu
edit: How's it done for a native f drive install?
TIA
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 4:31 pm
by nobspangle
you need to create a tar of your filesystem you can't copy proc so you'll have to recreate that directory again if you restore from the backup.
Use
tar -jcvf /path/to/tar/file.tar.bz2 /boot /bin /etc (and so on for each folder in your root missing out /proc)
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 10:24 pm
by scoobydu
So its a pretty manual process then.
Thanks anyway.
Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 10:26 pm
by nobspangle
you could write a script, one for backup and one for restore it would only be around 10-15 lines
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 8:52 pm
by scoobydu
You're assuming the box will boot though, and it may not.
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 9:05 pm
by nobspangle
you boot off of the stardust CD keep the script on your C or E drive and run it from there
Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 10:26 am
by scoobydu
nobspangle wrote:you boot off of the stardust CD
... and at what point do you exit the stardust boot process so that you have access to the mounted native f: drive linux file structures?
Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 9:46 pm
by nobspangle
you just ctrl+c out of the stardust install script then mount the partitions yourself, I think the mount points are already there you just need to mount the partition. You can then execute your script which mounts all the other partitions for you