Re: Backup and Restore of Linux file system

From: Markus Baertschi (markus_at_markus.org)
Date: 08/06/03 

Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 11:51:29 +0200

In article <SCvXa.20068$Id1.2024671@newsfep2-win.server.ntli.net>,
someone@somewhere.com says...
> Thickie Windows user question.
>
> Windows: (in its simplest form) Windows x file system, tape drive, ntbackup,
> backup drive c and system state/reg. If machine files, install basic OS,
> service pack, restore drive c and sys state. Job done!
>
> Linux: ???????? Is it as simple? Ive read lots about using tar etc but are
> there simple steps to get a system back to the point of backup??? Say if it
> was running www, sendmail, mysql, etc
>
> Cheers
>
> Tim
>

I'm creating a weekly compressed tar archive of the OS filesystems of my
linux servers on a central server. If I need to restore I can boot from
a rescue CD, recreate the filesystems and restore the backup.
The entire restore/reinstall process takes about 20 minutes...

Markus 

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