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How to do a FULL backup that will permit a bare-metal restore?

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https://www.centos.org – Are you simply asking for an example of how to use tar? If so, assuming that your USB drive is at /mnt/usb, you can use this command: tar cjf /mnt/usb/backup.tar.bz2 --exclude /mnt/usb /. (HowTos)

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Submitted by nicelinux on 01/19/2013 – Made popular on 01/19/2013

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Redo Backup and Recovery, a recovery solution that provides bare metal restore, is now at version 1.0.4.

Bare metal restore means that even if your hard drive melts or gets completely erased by a virus, you can have a completely functional system back up and running in as little as 10 minutes.

Redo Backup and Recovery is a Live CD, so the platform is not all that important.

I have two hard drives--a system drive and a data drive. The path to the data drive is /storage. Following this post, I went to the root of my filesytem and executed the following command:

tar cvpzf backup.tgz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/backup.tgz --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/sys --exclude=/storage /

Note that I excluded the data drive (--exclude=/storage) from the backup.

Bare metal restore suggestion 31 weeks 6 days ago

Hi everybody!

I'm currently working on a inhouse backup solution, and for next stage we're working on a bare metal restore function.

Apart from knowing the obvious ( MBR backup, fdisk info etc ) if somebody can suggest any additional tips or insights how this can be done seamlessly.

I want to restore a complete tar backup of Ubuntu 12.04 with all my customizations, documents, installed software, etc. to a different machine.

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I have a old laptop I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on.

Linux backup using tar 14 weeks 1 day ago

Im new to linux backup. Im thinking of full system backup of my linux server using tar. I came up with the following code:

tar -zcvpf /archive/fullbackup.tar.gz --exclude=/archive --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/dev --exclude=/sys --exclude=/tmp /

and if in need of any hardware problem, restore it with

cd / tar -zxpvf fullbackup.tar.gz

But does my ab

I use rsnapshot to create hourly/daily/weekly/monthly backups of my "work"-share.

When I perform a backup from recovery (or via a front-end such as ROM Manager), what exactly is saved?

Is it like a clone of a hard drive in the PC world?

Does it contain only data, and not the actual ROM?

How should I go about using such a backup when doing a restore? Should a ROM be installed first, followed by the restore?