Re: Uh Oh - Hosed Upgrade - Deb - How to Recover ?
c186282 <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
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| Organization | wokiesux |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 8/7/26 15:50, Jim Jackson wrote: > 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. Note "upgrade" in the thread title. I've writ many custom backup apps - and thus DO heavily rec getting rsync involved.