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)
Discussion started by: joosted
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
ltsp-update-image
ltsp-update-image(8) System Manager's Manual ltsp-update-image(8)NAME
ltsp-update-image - Generate an NBD image from an LTSP chroot
SYNOPSIS
ltsp-update-image [OPTION] [CHROOT...]
DESCRIPTION
ltsp-update-image generates a compressed squashfs image from an LTSP chroot and exports it with nbd-server(1). CHROOT can be a full path
or a subdirectory of the /opt/ltsp base directory, and it defaults to the host architecture if unset.
OPTIONS -b --base=
The LTSP base directory. Defaults to "/opt/ltsp".
-c --cleanup
Temporarily remove user accounts, logs, caches etc from the chroot before exporting the image. The chroot arch is required to be
compatible with the server arch.
-e --exclude=
List of dirs/files to exclude from the image. This is in addition to /etc/ltsp/ltsp-update-image.excludes.
-f --config-nbd
Generate appropriate nbd-server configuration files. It's automatically set if NFS isn't used or if other LTSP generated nbd-server
configuration files already exist.
-h --help
The application help page.
-m --no-compress
Don't compress the generated image.
-n --no-backup
Don't backup chroot.img to chroot.img.old.
-r --revert
Swap chroot.img with chroot.img.old and update kernels.
SEE ALSO ltsp-build-client(8), ltsp-update-kernels(8), ltsp-update-sshkeys(8), mksquashfs(1), nbd-server(1).
AVAILABILITY
ltsp-update-image is part of ltsp package and the latest versions are available in source form from https://launchpad.net/ltsp.
MAN PAGE AUTHOR
Copyright 2012 Alkis Georgopoulos <alkisg@gmail.com>, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later
version.
2012-05-29 ltsp-update-image(8)
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