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. (OK, I haven't maintained these for a while.)
  • Source
  • Client scripts
  • Documentation
  • RPM spec

MD5 sums:

0bfdf4dcde5bde9b07fa22e075aef5e4  Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO-2.3.chunky.html.tar.bz2
4ed51e72a8de1e6fc8701fb5c1fc82cc  Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO-2.3.pdf.bz2
54212d961bf5e24452f08d30d5833ef3  Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO-2.3.ps.bz2
ee06e9ac1dafd1500af8070dd14428aa  Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO-2.3.smooth.html.tar.bz2
cca0c19fde1a4a9e99d6be8aff624cf6  Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO-2.3.tar.bz2
4059d198768f9f8dc9372dc1c54bc3c3  Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO-2.3.txt.bz2
04eec6d9dda7f3e3af5a45d0ac75684e  Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO.spec

SHA1 sums:

14a35dd2a2c94316f53e6412480f9005461e069e  Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO-2.3.chunky.html.tar.bz2
8edd6070e4b5d2c9f36aae97fe23414040f8be4f  Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO-2.3.pdf.bz2
5f7925f3eb325957c28df10087fb0b36f961da09  Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO-2.3.ps.bz2
4e1c68332c6887ec7985109f5d39dd7be550ebde  Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO-2.3.smooth.html.tar.bz2
efeca78d588ee8bf798fd5bbc9f13c0622564217  Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO-2.3.tar.bz2
64a543afbb5f4bf728636bdcbbe7a2ed0804adc2  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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