Re: [gentoo-user] what isn't required to boot a system/what can be trimmed from a backup

Group: linux.gentoo.user
From: forgottenwizard
Date: Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what isn't required to boot a system/what can be trimmed from a backup

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On 09:43 Thu 13 Mar , "Mateusz A. Mierzwin'ski" wrote:
> You should stop using rsync. Why? I've think like You couple days ago.
> Rsync is good but, when i record DVD with backup files of OS and try to
> restore by rsync then I started to waiting for files counting... and
> waiting... and waiting. So I use "tar -cjvpf

--exclude=/dev
> --exclude=/proc --exclude=/root --exclude=/usr/portage/distfiles" and
> backup work's perfect. You can use ISOMASTER to edit ISO of minimal livecd
> of gentoo and add archive to that file, rebuild iso and write it on DVD -
> it works fine. Now restoring to full functional Gentoo needs 3 minutes of
> data decompresion to disk (tar -xjvpf) faster is without verbose mode. Next
> step is chroot /usr/sbin/lilo (after mounting proc) and reboot
> ;). This is faster :D
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>

The rsync backup is just to an external hard drive, and not to a DVD. I'm
going to make an archive (maybe with dar, maybe with tar) to burn to DVD so
that I have something to restore from if everything goes kaput on me.

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