The restore was done on a PC, I boot with a live CD, wipe everything on the /
, then UNTAR everything there.
For the PC to successfully boot:
1. MBR/GRUB must be properly configured
2. udev > persistent rules - must remove the MAC addresses
3. in /boot/grub directory necessary changes needs to be done if you are changing from a raid 1 to a non-raid configuration.
The restore was a good experience for me and worked without any issues
Dear coolatt,
Thanks for the update and the really useful procedure and list of updates that are required (I've split the line up so it shows clearly here) I'm not sure if it is officially supported or what complications you might hit with dissimilar hardware, but if it gives people a starting point to clone with then that's really useful. There are also commercial products available which can do this, but I have no ideas on the costs or your budget.
The two I know of are Adaptable System Recovery and Christie Clone Manager
As for citations, I have used ASR myself. It's good and a DR solution that you can bare-metal recover from (or clone). My company has use CCM elsewhere for transferring in servers from another company. It might need the live server available to clone elsewhere as opposed to the backup/restore that ASR gives you. I am less familiar with it.
I hope that these help, but in any case thanks for your input.
Hi all,
I would like to append list of files to already taken tar backup
file. can anybody help?
last month backup :
cd /accounts/11
tar -cvf monthback.tar *
Now I want to add /accounts/12 to monthback.tar
is it possible?
Krishna (1 Reply)
Hi all & anyone.
I'm trying to selectively backup up some old Apache log files before they are removed from the system (Slackware box).
Have created a file listing of what I want backed up ...Below is a portion of the file ./selectedbkup... (2 Replies)
Im trying to use tar to backup the os directories. I have a file called bdirs which contains a list of the directories that im trying to backup:
/bin
/dev
/devices
/etc
/export
/home
/kernel
/lib
/local
/mnt
/opt
/platform
/proc
/sbin
start
/usr
/var
/vol (3 Replies)
Every day we back up all files on our system that are older than 7 days, so effectively we do a day's worth at a time.
The way we do this is to issue a find command using mtime +7 - we then loop round and for each result we issue a MV to move the file to a newly created directory. We then TAR the... (20 Replies)
I am trying to do a full system backup using tar. It then after maybe 12 or so hours comes up with tar: write error: unexpected EOF. I have thoroughly cleaned the drive and tried to use a different drive but it still gives me this error. Can someone help. I am on solaris 8. (1 Reply)
I have a Linux email server, I want to backup all /home /var... by tar command and copy to my PC for backup everyweek. The Linux serve rhave ftp function.
Is there any program to help backup my file? any url welcome
many thank. (8 Replies)
Hi all,
i need to backup files on network from RHEL 4 machine
tape drive is installed on solaris 10 machine and want ot use this
using
# tar cv /myfiles |ssh -l myuser myhost 'buffer -o /dev/rmt/0 "
to backup these file but getting getting error " sh buffer not found '
even "buffer-1.19-1"... (2 Replies)
Hi friends,
I am planning to backup my Solaris Servers to SAN storage using tar.
Also palnning to automate the job using Crontab.
Can anyone advise how to make the date change automatically everyday for backup.
Pls correct me if I am wrong. Thanks (7 Replies)
I am backing up some data to an NTFS formatted backup drive. I have to preserve the Unix permissions of the data being backed up and therfore use backup into a tar file.
I would like to backup the differnential data in the tar file similiar to how Rsync works so as to save on backup time as it... (1 Reply)
hello i want to backup my debian running nas (only the debian part)
i wanna do this over ssh
is this possible and how to do this
thx
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the thing is i f this is possible i wanne have te back up of... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
bup-index
bup-index(1) General Commands Manual bup-index(1)NAME
bup-index - print and/or update the bup filesystem index
SYNOPSIS
bup index <-p|-m|-s|-u> [-H] [-l] [-x] [--fake-valid] [--fake-invalid] [--check] [-f indexfile] [--exclude path] [--exclude-from filename]
[-v]
DESCRIPTION
bup index prints and/or updates the bup filesystem index, which is a cache of the filenames, attributes, and sha-1 hashes of each file and
directory in the filesystem. The bup index is similar in function to the git(1) index, and can be found in ~/.bup/bupindex.
Creating a backup in bup consists of two steps: updating the index with bup index, then actually backing up the files (or a subset of the
files) with bup save. The separation exists for these reasons:
1. There is more than one way to generate a list of files that need to be backed up. For example, you might want to use inotify(7) or dno-
tify(7).
2. Even if you back up files to multiple destinations (for added redundancy), the file names, attributes, and hashes will be the same each
time. Thus, you can save the trouble of repeatedly re-generating the list of files for each backup set.
3. You may want to use the data tracked by bup index for other purposes (such as speeding up other programs that need the same informa-
tion).
MODES -u, --update
recursively update the index for the given filenames and their descendants. One or more filenames must be given. If no mode option
is given, this is the default.
-p, --print
print the contents of the index. If filenames are given, shows the given entries and their descendants. If no filenames are given,
shows the entries starting at the current working directory (.) .
-m, --modified
prints only files which are marked as modified (ie. changed since the most recent backup) in the index. Implies -p.
-s, --status
prepend a status code (A, M, D, or space) before each filename. Implies -p. The codes mean, respectively, that a file is marked in
the index as added, modified, deleted, or unchanged since the last backup.
OPTIONS -H, --hash
for each file printed, prepend the most recently recorded hash code. The hash code is normally generated by bup save. For objects
which have not yet been backed up, the hash code will be 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000. Note that the hash code is
printed even if the file is known to be modified or deleted in the index (ie. the file on the filesystem no longer matches the
recorded hash). If this is a problem for you, use --status.
-l, --long
print more information about each file, in a similar format to the -l option to ls(1).
-x, --xdev, --one-file-system
don't cross filesystem boundaries when recursing through the filesystem. Only applicable if you're using -u.
--fake-valid
mark specified filenames as up-to-date even if they aren't. This can be useful for testing, or to avoid unnecessarily backing up
files that you know are boring.
--fake-invalid
mark specified filenames as not up-to-date, forcing the next "bup save" run to re-check their contents.
--check
carefully check index file integrity before and after updating. Mostly useful for automated tests.
-f, --indexfile=indexfile
use a different index filename instead of ~/.bup/bupindex.
--exclude=path
a path to exclude from the backup (can be used more than once)
--exclude-from=filename
a file that contains exclude paths (can be used more than once)
-v, --verbose
increase log output during update (can be used more than once). With one -v, print each directory as it is updated; with two -v,
print each file too.
EXAMPLE
bup index -vux /etc /var /usr
SEE ALSO bup-save(1), bup-drecurse(1), bup-on(1)BUP
Part of the bup(1) suite.
AUTHORS
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>.
Bup unknown-bup-index(1)