Re: [BackupPC-users] Bare Metal Restore?

[Les M. <le...@fu...>]

On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 18:10, Josh Marshall wrote:

> My method for a bare metal restore then is:
> 
> * Boot with the rescue disk of your choice
> * Partition the hard disk so that either the labels or the drive letters match 
> (easiest - if not you'll just have to edit /etc/fstab later)

One thing this points out is that it is a good idea to
save the output of 'fdisk -l' somewhere for each machine
so you know how to set up the partitions on the replacement.

[...]
> * chroot to the temporary folder

I've never been able to chroot to a RH/fedora restore
when running from a knoppix CD.

> * edit /etc/fstab if necessary
> * /sbin/lilo

Both lilo and grub have ways to specify which disk
to update and where to find the config file if you
haven't chroot'ed to the right place.  However it
has always seemed faster to reboot with the matching
install CD so chroot will work than to look up the
right syntax.  Current fedora disks offer to bring
up the network in rescue mode so you could probably
do everything from there, but sometimes having multiple
windows is handy while you work in case you need to
check a similar machine's disk layout or read some
documentation and the knoppix disk will start X for you.

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  Les Mikesell
   le...@fu...