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Mow · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 106

I have my system set up nice and am running flawlessly .......... so what is a good back up procedure so that I can quickly get my system back up and running should i break stuff? The last thing I want to do is have to reload, try to remember everything I did and re-emerge EVERYTHING.

I've seen some disk imaging stuff flying around but they don;t seem to support reiserfs ........... anyone got any suggestions? Thanks.

Lord_Orion · Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 3:00 am Post subject:

You can use partimage to make a backup of your linux system...

http://www.partimage.org/

and you can find it in portage

Lord Orion

Mow · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 106

thanks ........... anything special I have to do to emerge it?

Okay I found out that I have to use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS and such but it will not compile........... problem with this version is that if I boot off the CD it doesn't see my SATA drives.

Lord_Orion · Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 4:05 am Post subject:

You can try to use it from a knoppix CD, the last version (3.4) uses the 2.6.4 kernel... with a little luck the S ATA is compiled in the kernel or can be loaded as module...

good luck

Lord Orion

smiley · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Dec 2003 Posts: 127

An other option is to only back up your home directory, /etc, and /var/cache/edb/world. That way, if you need to reinstall, you install the base system, then copy your backups of the home directory, /etc, and the world file, then 'emerge -u world', which installs every other application you had.

smiley

Mow · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 106

Actually I found a VERY nice solution from herehttp://rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/g4u/

It compressed my gentoo install to about 6 gb and put it up on a my internal FTP server in abbout 45 minutes........

All in all it worked very well for me. Only problem is I had to put in a 3com 3c905b as my on-board nic (ASUS k8v deluxe) wasn't detected.

Those looking for a good solution should check it out.

awn4500 · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 19 Location: England

is there a way of getting partimage, because i wanna do it for my windows as well,this is the output :

kezzla · Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 5:05 am Post subject:

I agree with awn4500 - I get the *exact* output when trying to emerge partimage. I have added "sys-apps/partimage ~amd64" to /etc/portage/package.keywords and it still won't emerge...what's going on ??

kezzla · Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 5:09 am Post subject:

Well holy cow ... hehe right after I post that I get it to work !

marvin rouge · Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 8:40 am Post subject:

DAR is fine for incremential backup.

Available in each good portage tree

awn4500 · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 19 Location: England

NO DICE, been trying it for the past i dont know how long, copied and pasted the same lines so many times, its not even funny anymore.

Really appreciate the help
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dasalvagg · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jun 2002 Posts: 183 Location: NY

The catalyst project is picking up steam, maybe you should look into creating your own livecd. I'm not sure how much work this takes...

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/

Corona688 · Veteran Joined: 10 Jan 2004 Posts: 1204

awn4500 · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 19 Location: England

Yo, thanx man, but i noticed that already and fixed it, way long ago, but still no dice even after copying/pasting KEZZLA's post -much appreciated of course

any further suggestions, or shall i start DARring that baby?
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duderonomy · Guru Joined: 20 Mar 2004 Posts: 349 Location: SF Bay Area

awn4500 · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 19 Location: England

Hey,
i got nowhere with the partimage-gentoo combination, so now i have a recovery CD on standby. And everything works perfectly from that. But still trying to run partimage from my gentoo. Will keep you posted.
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