On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 02:31:47PM -0500, linda hanigan wrote:
> Hi all
> Since they have to redo my drive. I figured I would do a cpio of all the
> directories except /proc my original backup I did as
> find / -print | cpio -oc > /dev/hdb4
> and it complained about trying to cpio /proc files. Not sure what it might
> do when trying to restore them. If I do this and then
> use the Install to do a minimal installation boot, set my zipdrive will
> I be able to just
> cpio -icdmu < /dev/hdb4
> and have all my password, users, network etc resetup or do I need
> to redo all the configurations by hand. I really appreciate all the help.
> When I talked to the guys at the computer shop they said "See what a
> problem Linux is" I will be glad when we have some Linux friendly computer
> shops around here. For one thing I wouldn't have to support Microsoft by
> paying for windows when I am not even using it!
Pay no attention to the ostriches.
You shouldn't try to backup /proc since it is only an interface to the
kernel, and not a real filesystem (you probably figured this out already).
Otherwise, that command should work. If you've got just one large root
filesystem, you could use this command:
find / -print -xdev | cpio -oc > /dev/hdb4
To improve performance, you could compress the stream on the way to the
zip disk...
find / -print -xdev | cpio -oc | gzip > /dev/hdb4
then to recover...
gzip -dc /dev/hdb4 | cpio -icdmu
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