Re: Uh Oh - Hosed Upgrade - Deb - How to Recover ?
Jim Jackson <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On 2026-08-07, c186282 <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/6/26 17:16, Jim Jackson wrote: >> On 2026-08-05, Lawrence D?Oliveiro <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:18:23 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >>> >>>> # Copy the root partition. >>>> dd if=/dev/sda1 | gzip >/mnt/backup/cjglap2/sda1.img.gz >>> >>> Doing a dd on a volume that is currently mounted may not give >>> completely reliable results. >>> >>>> # Copy various directories. >>>> rsync -av --delete /etc /mnt/backup/cjglap2 >>>> rsync -av --delete /usr /mnt/backup/cjglap2 >>>> rsync -av --exclude='/home/cjg/.cache/' --delete /home /mnt/backup/cjglap2 >>>> rsync -av --delete /var/spool/slrnpull /mnt/backup/cjglap2 >>> >>> ???-a??? does not include ???-A??? or ???-X???, which I like to include these >>> days, just in case. >> >> also --numeric-ids >> >> The machine you are backing up to may have different "system" ids (<1000) >> and cause problems when copying back - depending on how one does it. > > SO many complicating factors these days ! Remember > when Linux updates "Just Worked" ??? Sorry this isn't about updates, but about backups.