[mythtv-users] image of mythtv system
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org
Sat Oct 21 02:53:03 UTC 2006
On Oct 20, 2006, at 8:18 PM, Bilge Tutak wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to make an exact image of my mythtv box and put it on a dvd.
> If something
> goes wrong, I do not want to install everything from the beginning
> again.
> First, how do you make an image from a system? (if possible, I
> think it is possible :))
> Assuming, I made the image and later successfully, re-deployed the
> image. Again,
> assuming no hardware change, will it work as before?
>
> Thank you,
>
What you are talking about is a backup strategy which will allow you
to recover a lost or damaged system. There are probably as many
solutions to this problem as there are users, and the subject is
really too complex to be appropriate here except in the most simple
terms.
If your system crashes totally you will have to "install everything
from the beginning" in one way or another. You could image your
system drive but you would still have real-time stuff like your
database and the actual videos to deal with as well, and all that
would probably not fit onto a DVD, or even a Blu-ray disk.
But you do bring up a common problem, and it would be interesting to
know how users are backing up (or not backing up) their various Myth
systems.
Any Video I do not want to lose I simply archive to DVD, and I back
up my database at regular intervals. Other than that I just keep my
original installation disks around and I guess I would simply start
over if I had to. A UPS and a redundant (RAID) storage system help to
delay the inevitable :-)
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