On 12/31/2022 2:38 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
On 30 Dec 2022 at 17:07, Bill Cunningham wrote:
Date sent: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 17:07:57 -0500
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From: Bill Cunningham
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Subject: backup/restore
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In visiting the backup subject from some time ago, I have found that
from most environment boots that are rescue type boots, there are two
restores that seem to be available.
1. rsync, of course, and;
2. I have seen fsarchiver.
Now I have never seen restore/dump in a rescue environment. So to me
there is no reason to use it. rsync is very complicated but might be
well worth the time and effort mastering. fsarchiver seems ok.
Other than that, clonezilla seems to be that best and fastest to
me, for my purposes. As in incremental backups. dump/restore seems good,
but rescue environments do not seems to have it, not the f37 workstation
iso. Mastering find and using tar might be ok, but, no compression.
Other than these two restore types, rsync and fsarchiver, is anyone
familiar with a commonly available, rescue environment restore?
B
Just to add another option. I've been maintainer of the
G4L project going back to 2004. It is built using Fedora
35 as the current build environment. It includes
fsarchiver as an option the boot image. It basically is a
bare metal backup system and has clone options as well.
Use dd with various compression options.
Have recently used it to clone machines from regular
disks to SSD disk. Uses dialog as interface, so not a
fancy GUI. Latest version on sourceforge is 0.61, but
have done 79 updates with 0.62 so far. Probable going to
release new version soon. Has kernel 6.1.1 as default
and 6.2-rc1 also. Does work from CD, USB, or Grub
menu with 40_Custom with regular boot. Also, have a
UEFI boot option that uses grub4dos...
Current files added to /boot are
10785120 Dec 26 22:36 bz6x1.1
22051545 Dec 26 22:36 ramdisk.lzma
The version using syslinux rebular boot load for CD or
USB is
50331648 Dec 26 20:46 g4l-v0.62alpha79-fc35.iso
The g4lefi version is just copied to usb.
67108864 Dec 26 20:49 g4lefi-0.62.iso
It has regular grub4dos boot and grub4dos-efi boot in
image.
Had also used the G4U (NETBSD based before finding
G4L.
Older versions where 32bit, but when Fedora stopped
32bit versions, I had to upgrade to 64bit. Then had to
add UEFI since some users got new machines that would
no longer boot without UEFI. (Doesn't have secure UEFI,
since no way I could cover cost of getting that)
Program is 100% Free by way. Use to use it for my
computer labs before I retired. Also had UDPCAST so it
can image many machines at once.
Well, another option.
G4L project. I have never heard of that. I will look into it.
B
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