Just recovered from a kernel-not-loading situation, without any data loss and
happily wondering what I should do now to make sure I don't get the same
adrenalin shot next time it happens.
I do have a removable usb hard drive for backups, onto which I copy stuff using
cp -rp *
and I'm wondering how I should copy my linux configuration, and then how I
restore it too when needed.
Do I just do
cp -rp /etc /media/external
and on recovery, just install all packages and then copy the whole /etc back?
I am looking at
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO/overview.html
but it was last updated in 2006 so I figure there might be some useful new stuff
too somewhere.
Also wondering what the lenny installation cd 'rescue mode' does - and whether I
need a boot floppy with a copy of my partition info?
Thanks
Adam
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