What's the best way to backup/ghost a working system?
I have reinstalled too many time in the past couple of weeks and realize it would be much easier to restore a working system versus reinstall when I do something stupid and eff it up. What is the best way to make a restorable ghost of the image without having to reinstall a damn thing?
Thx,
Kevin
I use clonezilla and save my image to a samba share.
Works wonders.
Tim
^^^ What he said.
If you have an ext4 partition (which I inadvertently selected in my haste, but doesn't seem to be causing any problems), you need to use the "expert" mode and use option -q2 when it asks. I think it's also worth selecting the fsck option as well.
Happy cloning.
Cheers,
Matt.
thanks guys, I'll look into that.
I also use CloneZilla, works great. Just a hint: don't put any media files on the boot disk; you'll get a disk image of 4-15 GB and backup/restore will be very fast.
/Joakim
All of my media files are on a separate drive.
Thanks
Quote from: JoakimL on December 21, 2011, 09:09:59 PM
I also use CloneZilla, works great. Just a hint: don't put any media files on the boot disk; you'll get a disk image of 4-15 GB and backup/restore will be very fast.
/Joakim
Since linuxmce handles this automaticlly (the location of the files), it's a bit hard to arrange this. Or how did you manage to do this?
When LMCE detects the partition that your OS is on, you will be asked the question whether you want the partition to be used automatically - select "no, only specifically when told to". Or ignore it completely (this is what I do).
To change this behaviour at a later date, find the partition in web admin (under Core in My Devices), and look for the option "use automatically" and uncheck.
Cheers,
Matt.