[dundee] Automatix & Ubunt

[Lee Hughes]

nice!

William Cameron <bc_dundee at hotmail.com> wrote:    P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma }  Ah. I see what you're saying now.  Yes I do believe it would be possible.  A quick google search made me aware of this (obvious?) point.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=334833

If you had a spare life time to 'dd' it.

I suppose however there maybe OS independant boot CD's for example which may create images/copies.  Maybe not what you were thinking but a quick painless backup none the less.  TAke for example PowerQuest Disk Image.  If you create a boot CD, it runs and partitions any partition regardless of OS, be it windowz or *nix.

Anyway, thats my tupence worth. Probably useless, but hey.. what can I say.. I make it up as I go along :-)

Bill





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Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 19:49:04 +0100
From: toxicnaan at yahoo.co.uk
Subject: RE: [dundee] Automatix & Ubunt
To: dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk
CC: 

nah, wha tI'm saying is use any backup device, you could for instance write the disk image to dvd, ipod or your own mind http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113481/

you'll have a complete image of your system, so if it goes tits up, you can just reimage the drive, and start again...

you could probably do the same with windows.


if you really wanted.

Laters,
Lee



William Cameron <bc_dundee at hotmail.com> wrote:    .ExternalClass P {padding:0px;} .ExternalClass {font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;}  The theory sounds sound enough, but I believe there are issues with how a system interprets USB Keys/HDD during boot.  Additionally, I remember having issues while booting Gentoo from USB as a "recovery pen" with it accessing the pen during boot, it at points couldn't  read from it fast enough.  It did eventually boot however, but it stopped what appeard to be randomly stating it couldn't read 'root'.

I think that's what's you're meaning?  Image your system to USB, dist-upgrade etc, reboot to USB, if [goes tits up] modify grub.lst to boot HDD again?

Bill





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Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 14:16:27 +0100
From: toxicnaan at yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Re: [dundee] Automatix & Ubunt
To: dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk
CC: 

well, bugger me...

but question is can you use LVM for root volumes /

would be an interesting howto for ubuntu, 

I just though of another way.

connect use storage device (GB)

boot a knoppix type distro

dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/usbkey/mybackup

reboot into ubuntu

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

reboot..

does it work? yeah!! keep it..

total failure

boot  knoppix

dd if=/mnt/usbkey/mybackup of=/dev/hda

comments!




Andrew Clayton <andrew at digital-domain.net> wrote: On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 00:21:59 +0100, Digit (SG) wrote:

> "it a shame you can't check point the file system, and the roll it
> all back if it goes tits up."
> 
> u can cant  you?

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshotintro.html

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