Hi there,
I have seen this matter arise under a slightly different context many times on this mailing list and am sure a Google search will produce tonnes of results; however i thought I'd get some recommendations and some easy options for backing up my Linux OS:
I would like to create an image of the Ubuntu 9.04 system running on my desktop PC, so that in the event I mess something up I can return to a system, that is already setup and 'tweaked', as apposed to dropping the install disk back in and starting again.. I would also like to look into doing this for other ubuntu pcs over the network and hosting these recovery images on my desktop pc...
Would be awesome to have some sort of semi-automated process to recovering these images from the grub.
Anyways cheers in advance for your help
Alex Scotton
Hey dude. Ubuntu does have some kind of imaging tool somewhere to pack an install down (excluding user files) into an iso or something. I remember seeing it in synaptic and Add/Remive Software. Sorry I dont know the name.
Personally I like to run a script to tar /etc and htdocs, run mysqldump, and rsync ~/ to an external location.
Echo "GO GO Gadget backup script!"
Cheers
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On 29 Sep 2009, at 00:29, Alex Scotton alex.scotton@gmail.com wrote:
Hi there,
I have seen this matter arise under a slightly different context many times on this mailing list and am sure a Google search will produce tonnes of results; however i thought I'd get some recommendations and some easy options for backing up my Linux OS:
I would like to create an image of the Ubuntu 9.04 system running on my desktop PC, so that in the event I mess something up I can return to a system, that is already setup and 'tweaked', as apposed to dropping the install disk back in and starting again.. I would also like to look into doing this for other ubuntu pcs over the network and hosting these recovery images on my desktop pc...
Would be awesome to have some sort of semi-automated process to recovering these images from the grub.
Anyways cheers in advance for your help
Alex Scotton
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I would like to create an image of the Ubuntu 9.04 system running on my desktop PC, so that in the event I mess something up I can return to a system, that is already setup and 'tweaked', as apposed to dropping the install disk back in and starting again.. I would also like to look into doing this for other ubuntu pcs over the network and hosting these recovery images on my desktop pc...
On debian, we use etckeeper for the system configuration files (essentially etc under revision control with some helpers) and I expect it's available for Ubuntu too.
For user files, each site seems to have slightly different desires. I think tarring it and rsync'ing the tarball is one of the most common methods we use. The --rsyncable gzip option is useful then, set through the GZIP environment variable.
I'd be interested to know if people are loving any of the larger backup tools on small single-server sites yet...
Hope that helps,
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 02:53:27PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
I would like to create an image of the Ubuntu 9.04 system running on my desktop PC, so that in the event I mess something up I can return to a system, that is already setup and 'tweaked', as apposed to dropping the install disk back in and starting again.. I would also like to look into doing this for other ubuntu pcs over the network and hosting these recovery images on my desktop pc...
On debian, we use etckeeper for the system configuration files (essentially etc under revision control with some helpers) and I expect it's available for Ubuntu too.
For user files, each site seems to have slightly different desires. I think tarring it and rsync'ing the tarball is one of the most common methods we use. The --rsyncable gzip option is useful then, set through the GZIP environment variable.
I'd be interested to know if people are loving any of the larger backup tools on small single-server sites yet...
I use rdiff-backup to backup home directories, /etc and a few other bits and pieces to my NAS in the garage. It seems to work OK and I have used it to restore the odd file.
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:29:07 +0100 Alex Scotton alex.scotton@gmail.com allegedly wrote:
I would like to create an image of the Ubuntu 9.04 system running on my desktop PC, so that in the event I mess something up I can return to a system, that is already setup and 'tweaked', as apposed to dropping the install disk back in and starting again.. I would also like to look into doing this for other ubuntu pcs over the network and hosting these recovery images on my desktop pc...
I think you might like to take a look at remastersys http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/remastersystool.html
Mick
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