[Gllug] Bootable USB backup like OS X dmg?

[Steve Parker]

On 24/05/11 17:13, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> Steve Parker<steve at steve-parker.org>  writes:
>
>    
>> On 24/05/11 16:38, gvim wrote:
>>      
>>> This is not what I'm looking for. I want to make an externally
>>> bootable disk image of an installed Linux system, not a generic
>>> USB-bootable Linux distro. Something like SuperDuper! on Mac OS X.
>>>        
>> Your device paths etc are likely to be invalid if you boot one server's
>> image on another server
>>      
> That's why you use UUIDs and logical volume names, not raw physical
> device paths, in fstab etc.
>
>    
PCI paths to NICs, or MAC addresses? I'm just saying, it's worth being 
aware of these things. /dev/disk/by-* etc is useful, but only goes so far.

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