| Revision History | ||
|---|---|---|
| Revision 2.14 | 2022-04-08 | Revised by: c^2 |
| Fdisk now returns the string gpt in either upper or lower case. Other improvements. | ||
| Revision 2.13 | 2019-07-24 | Revised by: c^2 |
| save.metadata no longer changes all /dev/sda device names to /dev/hda names. Major changes in the README. | ||
| Revision 2.12 | 2018-06-09 | Revised by: c^2 |
| Added checksum generation and testing to improve reliability. | ||
| Revision 2.11 | 2017-07-29 | Revised by: c^2 |
| Several improvements after working with Debian 9. | ||
| Revision 2.10 | 2017-07-12 | Revised by: c^2 |
| We now check to see if the Perl UUID module is installed and in Perl's module path. Also, this is our first release under git. | ||
| Revision 2.9 | 2014-01-06 | Revised by: c^2 |
| Added a new file, which is a list of excludes for use by get.target. | ||
| Revision 2.8 | 2011-06-13 | Revised by: c^2 |
| Maintenance release. Many edits due to changes in technology. URL fixes. | ||
| Revision 2.7 | 2010-01-12 | Revised by: c^2 |
| More improvements in make.fdisk: Removed a bug related to UUIDs and found a better way to get them. | ||
| Revision 2.6 | 2009-12-24 | Revised by: c^2 |
| Improvements in make.fdisk: we now have a better way to get UUIDs, and we can preserve them for swap space. | ||
| Revision 2.5 | 2008-04-24 | Revised by: c^2 |
| Changed shebangs in the backup scripts to point to bash instead of sh because some ubunutu installations don't make sh a symlink to bash. | ||
| Revision 2.4 | 2007-11-08 | Revised by: c^2 |
| Some Debian/Ubuntu adaptations. see the notes below on them. | ||
| Revision 2.3 | 2007-05-26 | Revised by: c^2 |
| Changes for FHS compliance. Changes in save.metadata to handle the libata problem. | ||
| Revision 2.2 | 2006-07-11 | Revised by: c^2 |
| Clarified that the ZIP disk is not required, and there are alternatives. | ||
| Revision 2.1 | 2006-03-28 | Revised by: c^2 |
| Added notes for NTFS. Edited the To Do list. Started work on LVM and using Finnix. | ||
| Revision 2.0 | 2005-10-12 | Revised by: c^2 |
| Notes for Fedora Core 4. Removed notes for older versions of FC and Red Hat. Also, changes in the writeup and scripts to reflect using Knoppix instead of tomsrtbt. See the scripts for change notes. Changed some scripts so that long lines don't fall off the right side of printed pages (oops). | ||
| Revision 1.8 | 2005-02-19 | Revised by: c^2 |
| Added notes for Fedora Core 3 | ||
| Revision 1.7 | 2004-05-11 | Revised by: c^2 |
| Adjusted copyright language. | ||
| Revision 1.6 | 2004-04-29 | Revised by: c^2 |
| Added Knoppix notes, Syslinux, PPART, QtParted, some other rescue CDs, and made some fixes. | ||
| Revision 1.5 | 2003-12-19 | Revised by: c^2 |
| Fedora 1 and GRUB notes. | ||
| Revision 1.4 | 2003-08-17 | Revised by: c^2 |
| Some notes on burning CD-ROMs, and more on files to exclude. | ||
| Revision 1.3 | 2003-04-24 | Revised by: c^2 |
| Substituted new email address and URL for old. | ||
| Revision 1.2 | 2003-02-12 | Revised by: c^2 |
| Added Red Hat 8.0 notes, support for FAT32, split the first stage restore scripts, and other minor changes. Notes on Amanda. | ||
| Revision 1.1 | 2002-09-10 | Revised by: c^2 |
| New code to handle ext3 partitions in make.fdisk, and a note on initrd. | ||
| Revision 1.0 | 2002-07-24 | Revised by: c^2 |
| We now use bz2 compression in the first stage, have the run time option to check for bad blocks, and have a script that runs the entire first stage. | ||
Abstract
Imagine your disk drive has just become a very expensive hockey puck. Imagine you have had a fire, and your computer case now looks like something Salvador Dalĩ would like to paint. Now what?
Total restore, sometimes called bare metal recovery, is the process of rebuilding a computer after a catastrophic failure. In order to make a total restoration, you must have complete backups, not only of your file system, but of partition information and other data. This HOWTO is a step-by-step tutorial on how to back up a Linux computer so as to be able to make a bare metal recovery, and how to make that bare metal recovery. It includes some related scripts.
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