Steve Phillips <mailto:steve@xxxxxxxxxx> on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 4:34 PM said: > except you missed one small point. Well, at this point, until I get my new backup software installed I can't do a proper backup so those will have to do for the data side of things. Configuration I was not particularly concerned with in regards to the current daily backup plan that I have. But I totally understand what you're saying about those backups not being comphrehensive enought to restore a system. > If you really want to back things up then just cpio (or tar, or > amanda, or whatever) the entire file system less say /proc, and then > move that entire system backup off to another system/hard > drive/tape/etc (you could even practice a restore of this to another > system to ensure that it all works happily and this would also give > you a "live" backup waiting to go should things go wrong - either > that or restore the image to another hard drive, cost of around $100 > USD, and if stuff goes west then simply plug it in, power up and away > you go) So you're saying if I tar the entire fs (minus /proc) I can somehow copy it back? How do I do that? I don't understand how that would work unless I were doing it remotely and not having booted the computer normally. Here's why I'm confused. With image files don't you have to boot into a special "operating system" that will allow you to overwrite all the files that would normally be in use? (This is how it works for Windows at least [I think].) Thanks! Chris. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
