(Yes, I really am following up from a post 10 months ago...)
I finally attempted to backup the two partitions on the 1Gb drive from which I boot unslung. I attempted to use both cpio and tar, as instructed here. I did this by pulling the drive, and attaching it to a laptop that I had booted Knoppix 6.2. It mounted the data partition as sdc1 and the conf partition as sdc2. I had an external USB drive that is planned on backing everything up to, which was mounted as sdb1. I attempted to run the cpio command:
Although data.cpio was created, it was missing all kinds of data, due to permissions errors. Examples of such errors include:
cpio: ./root/.wymypy: Cannot open: Permission denied
cpio: ./.ext3flash: Cannot open: Permission denied
cpio: ./home/httpd/html/Management/.htpasswd: Cannot open: Permission denied
cpio: ./.ext3flash: Cannot open: Permission denied
cpio: ./home/httpd/
An attempt to use tar yielded similar results.
What can I/should I do to create a full and complete backup of my unslung drive?
Thanks in advance.
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Mike (mwester) <mwester@dls.net > wrote:
threeeyedtoad wrote:You're over-engineering a bit, here -- there's absolutely nothing
> Okay... trying to take some initiative, I ran across this page (http://wiki.linuxquestions. ), which is the most straight-forward explanation I've seen of creating a bit-for-bit backup using dd.org/wiki/ Dd
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> Assuming something like this is my answer:
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> dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/share/hdd/data/HDD_ 1_1_1/backup. img
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> If I've booted from the USB stick, and it is currently being used as root, will there be any problems trying to backup my active root partition using dd?
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> Assuming I'm on the right track here, I'll use this procedure to create three backups: /dev/sda1 (USB flash data filesystem), /dev/sda2 (USB flash conf filesystem), as well as the MBR. The question is: in restoring these backups to another USB stick, what is the restore sequence? Should I restore sda1 and sdb2, and then the MBR, presumably?
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> Thanks again to anyone listening out there...
special about the on-disk structure, and Unslung doesn't care at all
about UUIDs on partitions. So there's no need for "dd", just use cpio
or tar to back up the files. Also, there's no MBR for Unslung; it boots
from flash - so all you need is are the contents of the two partitions
(data and conf).
The net result is that the procedure looks like this:
-boot without disks
-plug in disks
-use tar to create tarballs of the two partions.
That's all there is to it.
Mike (mwester)
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