[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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