[CLUE-Tech] Disaster Recovery (was Linux laptop)

[Cyberclops]

I don't know if CLUE has any other Libranet users, but there are certain
modifications to my system particularly in the area of printing.  I would
like to have a list of the actual files that should  be backed up.  I
agree that a reinstall of the system wouldn't be too hard, but how do you
get it back to the way you had it before?  What files need to be saved
that are unique to your own system.
Obviously your own /home/"username" file, but what else?

Okay here's the beginning of my list:
/home/myusername = 505.4 megs
/etc                               =      4.1 megs

Anything else?



Brandon N wrote:

> I too have been thinking about backups.  Here is what I've been
> thinking of so far.
>
> I only want to back up actual data, which in my case is user
> directories, mysql databases and web pages, (and /etc)  I want
> everything else to be as close to the initial packages as possible (I
> use slackware because it's a easy task to rebuild the packages the way
> I want them.
>
> For the actual OS stuff I think I have two solutions.  I can save a
> list of the packages installed on the system, then just restore off of
> my distribution (I mirror slackware weekly)  Or I can make a mirror of
> the OS partitions.
>
> I have several hotswappable 4.5GB SCSI drives, but I need to aquire a
> UW SCSI external case so that I can easily mirror the drives, then all
> I have to do is swap it should it fail.  For the laptop that I use as a
> router, I don't have a spare hard drive, so I'll probably just have my
> desktop machine ready to take over it's functions from the latest
> backup.
>
> I'm currently working on writing up my procedures as well as the
> function of each machine using XML.  All the doucmentation will be
> burned to a CD-RW and stored at my aunts house, along with inventory
> and database backups.
>
> It's all probably overkill for a home network, but I figure it is good
> practice and good for a job interview.
>
> Disaster recovery is a very complicated issue and I would definatly be
> interested in hearing thoughts about mine or other peoples plans.
>
> Brandon
>
> --- Cyberclops <Cyberclops at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
> > I use Libranet on a full sized computer, but I'm interested in the
> > same
> > thing in a sense.  I want to make a complete backup of my system that
> > I
> > can use to restore it.  I have a Plextor CD-burner on the machine.
> >
> >
> >
> > Roger Frank wrote:
> >
> > > Haven't had a laptop since I had a real job.  But I saw one surplus
> > > for $100 with 2G drive, 40 MB memory, Ethernet/modem card.  No CD
> > ROM,
> > > and a 75 MHz 486 for a CPU.  I thought it might be a good time to
> > > learn about Linux on laptops.
> > >
> > > I'm surprised at how well Linux runs on this little NEC Versa M/75.
> > > I did a floppy install just to get to where it could use the
> > > Ethernet card, and then did the rest of the (Debian) install
> > > over the network.  I'm using Blackbox as a window manager
> > > and it's quite zippy.  The screen is 800x600 color, but for my
> > > needs that's just fine.  I've already done some editing with
> > > nedit and I've compiled some Java programs.
> > >
> > > Now that it works - and it did take some work to get it going -
> > > I wish there were a way to do a partition dump thru the serial
> > port.
> > > I know partimage is excellent, but there is no second drive or
> > > second partition.  I'd like to be able to get the exact image of
> > > what's on the disk onto another machine as an image, and I'd
> > > like to be able to restore it easily.  I guess it's the Linux
> > > equivalent of Ghost that I'm looking for.  Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Roger Frank
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