[plug] Restoring an entire linux filesystem from backup and making it bootable
Mike Holland
michael.holland at gmail.com
Thu Jul 31 18:27:30 WST 2008
When you restore a Linux install, on the same or different machine, by
just copying all the files, there are a few extra steps:
- reinstall GRUB.
# grub-install--root-directory=/mnt/XXXXX /dev/sdX
- edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to have the correct devices and/or UUIDs
- edit /etc/fstab likewise.
You can do all this from a live CD.
Anything I forgot?
You can avoid the second two by keeping the partiton numbers the same,
and either avoiding UUIDs, or imaging the whole partition.
Mike
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