Re: backuppc failed full backup of itself

2012-07-02 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2012/6/27 Keith McKenzie : > The system isn't backed up normally, as you would have installation > media to restore it; you would just backup configuration. Having said > that, if you do want to back it up, use a live media, not the running > system. > > (Usually it is only your data that is irrep

Re: backuppc failed full backup of itself

2012-06-27 Thread Keith McKenzie
The system isn't backed up normally, as you would have installation media to restore it; you would just backup configuration. Having said that, if you do want to back it up, use a live media, not the running system. (Usually it is only your data that is irreplaceable.) HTH -- Sent from FOSS (F

backuppc failed full backup of itself

2012-06-26 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
# aptitude show backuppc | grep Version Version: 3.1.0-9.1 # uname -a Linux backuppc 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Sun May 6 04:01:19 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux using default backup setting for localhost, it failed full backup with below error messages: Contents of file /var/lib/backuppc/pc/localhost

Always do a full backup first [Re: Broken dependencies]

2010-05-01 Thread Rick Thomas
his is the reason why people say "Before you do a major upgrade, always do a full backup. And be sure you know how to do a full "bare-metal" restore from that backup, just incase you actually need it!" Enjoy! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

RE: full backup/

2009-04-03 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Daniel Suleyman [mailto:danik...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 8:46 AM > Subject: full backup/ > > Dear all, I have HP DL380 G4 with installed debian sarge. I want to > make full back up of system? before reinstalling to debian lenny. > But server using

full backup/

2009-04-03 Thread Daniel Suleyman
Dear all, I have HP DL380 G4 with installed debian sarge. I want to make full back up of system? before reinstalling to debian lenny. But server using hardware raid. and my question is. how can i take full backup, that in case of any failure i will be able to restore system and it was just before

Easy to do Full backup /restore to dead system?

2000-05-20 Thread Gregory Guthrie
We have a small server, with no bulk backup device, but has network and CDrom reader. What is the easiest way to be able to recover everything in case of a crash? E.g. make big tar, ftp to remote site, and then restore? But I presume that one cannot overlay a running system. Thus boot to flopp