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bootcdbackup(1) [debian man page]

BOOTCDBACKUP(1) 						   bootcd utils 						   BOOTCDBACKUP(1)

NAME

       bootcdbackup - create a bootable offline backup of a unix system

SYNOPSIS

       bootcdbackup [-i] [-v] [-s] [-c <config directory>] [-url <url] [-nomount] [-2diskconf <file>] <dev> <name> <builddir>

DESCRIPTION

       bootcdbackup  creates a offline backup from a installed system. You need a running bootcd to boot the system with. This CD/DVD is booted on
       the system and bootcdbackup creates a bootable CD/DVD with the bootcd kernel and the backup disk as tar-file.

       To restore or clone the system, boot the CD/DVD image and install it with bootcd2disk -c <name> on the system.

       bootcdbackup can try to discover the disk partition by searching for fstab on the given partition. A other way to backup the partition  ta-
       ble is the program bootcdmk2diskconf which creates a configuration file on a running system.

OPTIONS

       -i  The bootcdbackup runs in interactive mode and you can run each function manually. This option is useful for debugging.

       -v  The option "-v" (verbose) adds messages on running.

       -s  This option can be used to disable interactive questions and to try to ignore errors.

       -c <config directory>
	   The configuration directory which includes the file "bootcdbackup.conf", default is "/etc/bootcd".

       -url <url>
	   If bootcdbackup is slow on your system (because of a slow CD/DVD drive or the HP ILO virtual CD interface), you can use an image server
	   to get the image from.

	   bootcdbackup use the SWAP partition of your upcoming system as temporary space and copy the image from the configured image	server	to
	   this partition and use it as image.	The image server url is configured with this option.

       -nomount
	   The target disk should not be mounted and no search for fstab is done.

       --cpio
	   Normally  as  backup  tool  star  will be used if selinux files have to be backed up and cpio will be used if not. With this option the
	   usage of cpio can be forced.

       --star
	   Normally as backup tool star will be used if selinux files have to be backed up and cpio will be used if  not.  With  this  option  the
	   usage of star can be forced.

       -2diskconf <file>
	   The	parameter  configures a bootcd2disk.conf for the restore of the system done by bootcd2disk.  The configuration file can be created
	   with the command bootcdmk2diskconf.

	<dev>
	   Configures the device where bootcdbackup finds the file "fstab" and discover the configuration for the restore.

	<name>
	   The name of the backup (no blanks!) is used on the creation time and to restore the backup with bootcd2disk -c <name>.

	<builddir>
	   Builddir is an directory on the backup system where bootcdbackup build the backup CD/DVD. Space for the CD/DVD image,  for  compression
	   and the data is needed!

       All other configuration has to be done in the config files.

FILES

       /etc/bootcd/bootcdbackup.conf

       Configuration for bootcdbackup.

SEE ALSO

       Documentation in bootcdbackup.conf

       bootcdbackup.conf(5), bootcd(1), bootcdflopcp(1), bootcdwrite(1)

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was written by Bernd Schumacher <bernd.schumacher@hp.com> and Carsten Dinkelmann <Carsten.Dinkelmann@foobar-cpa.de> for
       the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

bootcdbackup							    2007-07-05							   BOOTCDBACKUP(1)

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NAME

       bootcdwrite - build a bootcd image from a running system

SYNOPSIS

       bootcdwrite [-s] [-c <config_directory>] [-only_floppy]

DESCRIPTION

       bootcdwrite  is	used  to  write  a standard Linux Installation to cd. The Installation must fit on one CD. It is possible to copy a system
       mounted per NFS to a local CD writer. It is also possible to only create an image of the CD for later use.

       It is important that the kernel can access the cdrom on the system, where you want to boot from the CD, without having to load any modules.
       (Because  to load modules from CD, the kernel must have access to CD before). If this is not the case you have first to create a new kernel
       with CD-support built in.

       If something goes wrong with bootcdwrite, the user will be given the chance to correct the problem. bootcdwrite starts many commands. If  a
       command exits with an exit code != 0, or if a command produces unknown output on stdout or stderr, the command and the output will be shown
       to the user.  He gets the option to exit, retry the failed command, or to ignore the failed command.

OPTIONS

       -s     means silent and canbe used to to disable interactive questions and to try to ignore errors.

       -c config_directory
	      change the default path of the directory including the configuration (/etc/bootcd).

       -only_floppy
	      only a bootfloppy (to boot an existing bootcd) has to be created.

       Currently no other options can be specified on command line. All configuration
	      has to be done in the config files.

FILES

       /etc/bootcd/bootcdwrite.conf
	      Configuration for bootcdwrite.

       /var/spool/bootcd/
	      Here the image of the CD which will be created will be stored temporarily by bootcdwrite. WARNING - You need  a  lot  of	disk-space
	      here. You can change this location with variable VAR in bootcdwrite.conf.

SEE ALSO

       Documentation in bootcdwrite.conf
       bootcdwrite.conf(5), bootcd(1), bootcdflopcp(1), bootcd2disk(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Bernd Schumacher <bernd.schumacher@hp.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

							   Wed Feb 23 00:00:00 EET 2000 						 BOOTCD(1)
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