Bare Metal Recovery

Complete backup and recovery, A.K.A. bare metal restoration, is the art of restoring a system from the ground up. I have an article on the subject at 79 Linux Journal 104.

This page is the home page of the Linux HOWTO based on that article.

You can get it at the usual LDP sources. Or you can read it from this server.

In addition, if you want a local copy, you can have it in these formats. All are compressed with bzip2.

If you have problems grabbing the files below, you can edit your mime types. They are mime type application/x-bzip2, with extension bz2. In Netscape and you can hold down a shift key while you click on the link.

The current version is 2.3.

• PDF
• Postscript
• HTML chunky (lots of small pages. Faster reading.)
• HTML smooth (one monster page -- no chunks. Easier to search.)
• Raw ASCII text.
• Use the Source, Luke.
• Fedora RPMs. The current Fedora version is 4.fc7.
  • Source
  • Client scripts
  • Documentation
  • RPM spec

MD5 sums:

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74953ee25ddd26fb1e36913ac78ccc9a  Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO-2.3.pdf.bz2
ddde1424e99960b61438fa233fa6c4a6  Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO-2.3.ps.bz2
26c1e8f5d3d6dcecd1e9234d2889188a  Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO-2.3.smooth.html.tar.bz2
ae61ecd6c064c57e637cb9ac62c5c59a  Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO-2.3.tar.bz2
c4731823e3c36b37a4c5fb409db81f3a  Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO-2.3.txt.bz2
04eec6d9dda7f3e3af5a45d0ac75684e  Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO.spec

SHA1 sums:

d9fd1f9c7dd0efa77a1c4b4e7648792d71e0f385  Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO-2.3.chunky.html.tar.bz2
c0b5335ab635a7a3f8798a49c3a8b3eec88f7f31  Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO-2.3.pdf.bz2
01395d1175d6df938d37829e1c7a3a888cec142a  Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO-2.3.ps.bz2
0fad0f5315517df5e5ac73614265d81b409e9e82  Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO-2.3.smooth.html.tar.bz2
ba1c1238aef9d75072ee27ef9354b1e011a2f0f8  Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO-2.3.tar.bz2
65e03f2650b76f760308c4b1b910065c38aaf736  Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO-2.3.txt.bz2
804cce781ccbd56d22fc06190eeb2b671ddd4b65  Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO.spec

To ensure that you got a good download, validate the files against the checksums above. The easiest way to do this is to pull in the sha1sum or md5sum files (or both), and run the appropriate program against it:

sha1sum -c sha1sums

or/and

md5sum -c md5sums

To validate the RPMs, you should get my public key: which is available on the index page of this web site, and on key servers everywhere. Or get it like so:

rpm --import http://charlescurley.com/ccurley.asc

Then validate the rpms.

rpm -K *.rpm

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