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DSpider

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From: Romania

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 2,273

Backing up a bare-bone install questions

So I've set up a bare-bone install (no Desktop Environment, absolute minimum packages) which I thought about backing it up by using a LiveCD distro called Parted Magic. From the terminal I copied all the files from / to an "arch" folder:

cp -a /media/sdb1/* /media/sdb3/arch

Now if I fuck something up or just want a clean slate I could, theoretically, just copy everything back by running "cp -a /media/sdb3/arch/* /media/sdb1" and start from scratch, right ? Is there any downside to this ? Also, is it me or does the bare-bone install take up under 200 MB ?

Thanks.

Last edited by DSpider (2010-05-02 14:11:42)

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Backing up a bare-bone install questions

Relying on what should work in theory wrt backups is bad juju. Try it out. Try to install it on another computer. I'm not sure it will work, your fstab may need the UUIDs changed.