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Operating Systems Linux Debian Tar backup of debian server Post 302921132 by rbatte1 on Wednesday 15th of October 2014 06:05:22 AM
Old 10-15-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by coolatt
The following is the command I use for backup:

Code:
tar -cvpf /BACKUP/backup-PROD.tar /        \
   --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found   \
   --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/sys           \
   --exclude=/dev --exclude=/BACKUP        \
   --exclude=/media

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. Smilie


Robin
 

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bup-drecurse(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   bup-drecurse(1)

NAME
bup-drecurse - recursively list files in your filesystem SYNOPSIS
bup drecurse [-x] [-q] [--exclude path] [--exclude-from filename] [--profile] <path> DESCRIPTION
bup drecurse traverses files in the filesystem in a way similar to find(1). In most cases, you should use find(1) instead. This program is useful mainly for testing the file traversal algorithm used in bup-index(1). Note that filenames are returned in reverse alphabetical order, as in bup-index(1). This is important because you can't generate the hash of a parent directory until you have generated the hashes of all its children. When listing files in reverse order, the parent directory will come after its children, making this easy. OPTIONS
-x, --xdev, --one-file-system don't cross filesystem boundaries. -q, --quiet don't print filenames as they are encountered. Useful when testing performance of the traversal algorithms. --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) --profile print profiling information upon completion. Useful when testing performance of the traversal algorithms. EXAMPLE
bup drecurse -x / SEE ALSO
bup-index(1) BUP
Part of the bup(1) suite. AUTHORS
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>. Bup unknown- bup-drecurse(1)
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