I'm trying to develop a reliable backup method that does not use proprietary tools or formats, and is free as in beer. I thought I had it, but i just tried a restore, and it's a miserable failure. I wonder if anyone here can point out the error of my ways.
I have a tar backup of the entire system, excluding /sys, /proc and /dev. I have a tar backup of a bind-mount of /dev. These were taken while the system was running, but quiet. I did it this way because I cannot get the system to boot into single user mode. Putting "single" on the end of the "linux" like results in a black screen. I restored these, created /sys and /proc, and tried to boot the resulting partition. It boots, but X does not come up, or even seem to try. I can do a console login to my usual account, and stuff is there. I'm quite clueless as to why this is happening. I could sure use some help. -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shakespeare */ Please consider the environment before printing this email.
