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About a month ago I used the instructions on the Arch Wiki to do a full system backup using rsync. I was able to boot from the backup harddrive without problems. Since then I have upgraded quite a few packages through pacman and I did not keep a list. A few days ago I repartitioned my backup harddrive and then made a fresh system backup with rsync and the script from the Arch Wiki(rbackup.sh). However, now I cannot get the backup to fully boot. Everything goes fine until an attempt is made to mount the root file system where I then get the error that the device doesn't exist and "cannot access tty: job control turned off". After making sure that my fstab and grub entries were kosher I tried again and again to no avail. Now what puzzles me is that a month ago the procedure outlined on the Arch WIki worked beautifully and now there is a glitch to which I can't discern the cause. I also tried using Mondorescue but that too produces an error message when I try to boot from the rescue cd "cannot access tty: job control turned off". I have spent quite a bit of time searching for an answer to this but have come up empty so far.
I have triple and quadruple checked my config files and everything seems ok. The backup programs do not produce an error message. Is it possible that re-partitioning the drive is the cause? The drive(a WD 1TB Green) had one existing Win7 partition and I used cfdisk/mkfs to repartition for a more efficient use of space. I'm out of good ideas any help towards a solution would be appreciated.
Last edited by Captain Dunce (2011-02-18 07:40:18)
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I ran into a similar problem involving udev. Did you rsync these files:
/dev/console
/dev/initctl
/dev/null
/dev/zero
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Yeah, I made an include/exclude list per the instructions I found on the Wiki.
This is my list:
# Include
+ /dev/console
+ /dev/initctl
+ /dev/null
+ /dev/zero
# Exclude
- /dev/*
- /proc/*
- /sys/*
- /tmp/*
- *lost+found
- /media/BACKUP/*
- /var/lib/pacman/sync/*
- /home/dvd-projects*
- /home/deluge*
- /home/icons*
- /media/Ziggy*
- /media/1TBEXTRA*
- /home/archives*
- /home/builds*
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