On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:19:52 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > 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. I have had problems creating backups of the entire system, but I have switched to ‘REDO’ to give me a raw disk type of backup. This works very well so long as you have disks of the same size or larger for the reinstall. REDO backup up Linux and Windoze..Very good. Just Google for redo and you should get it. Gerald
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