Backing up system

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:02 AM, <gmspro at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> promac wrote:
>
> [
> You can do this way, but ideally your file system should be unmounted (boot
> from
> a live CD/DVD).
>
> I, personally, use BackupPC for /home and partimage for the file system (/
> and /boot).
>
> --
> Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
> LCG - UFRJ
> ]
>
> Would someone please tell how to use partimage to backup whole fedora 10
> system in detail?
>
> rpm -qa | grep partimage
> partimage-0.6.7-5.fc10.i386


Please, read:

/usr/share/doc/partimage-0.6.7/README.partimage.html



>
>
> I also downloaded systemrescuecd and burned it.
> But can't use it to backup whole fedora 10 system(actually I don't know how
> to use it)
> Booting this cd can't find graphical option.


Try "xinit"


> fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80025280000 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x29032902
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1        1912    15358108+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/sda2            1913        9449    60540952+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/sda3            9450        9729     2249100   82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
> /dev/sda5            1913        5609    29696121    b  W95 FAT32
> /dev/sda6            5610        8286    21502971   83  Linux
> /dev/sda7            8287        9449     9341766   83  Linux
>
> I am trying to backup /dev/sda6 partition.
> Is it necessary to backup the /proc , /sys, /lost+found , /media, /mnt,
> directory to be backed up?


>
> Is it possible to backup /dev/sda6 partition excluding these
> directory(/proc , /sys, /lost+found , /media, /mnt,) with partimage or
> systemrescuecd?
>

Partimage will make a copy of the whole partition. You cannot exclude
anything.



>
> If I copy the whole /dev/sda6 partition in a portable hard disk(250GB),then
> after reinstalling minimum fedora 10 and copy-paste that /dev/sda6 from the
> portable hard disk to the newly installed fedora 10's root (/) directory
> ,will it work ?
>

In fact, you do not need to reinstall. You can use / and /boot (if it is in
its own partition) from your backup. Generally, you just need to adapt
grub.conf,
fstab in some cases and/or run mkinitrd to recreate the initial initrd img.


-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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