Actually,<br>What I want to do is not a backup. It is just a system disk trying to save a lot of time when I need a reinstall. <br>I am already backing up my database and recordings regularly. What I want exactly is I think, just after a fresh install,
<br>I will make the image, so I will not bother with what is inside the database or the recordings :). When something happes,<br>I will just boot the DVD install/expand image tadaa I have my fresh system back. It is like creating another knoppix/gentoo/... system, but it is specific to my hardware with the myth and everything installed.
<br><br>Thanks for the ideas,<br><br>Bilge.<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jay Swackhamer</b> <<a href="mailto:Jay@reboottheuser.com">Jay@reboottheuser.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello,<br><br>I typically make a simple tar/compressed image of systems that I want<br>
to re-deploy.<br><br>I boot off of a gentoo cd or other livecd.<br>mount your filesystems( / /boot )<br>startup nfs<br>mkdir /mnt/tmp<br>mount a remote server ie nfsserver:/opt/backup /mnt/tmp<br>cd /mnt/gentoo<br>tar cvfz /mnt/tmp/mythtv_img.tgz *
<br><br><br>Quoting Bilge Tutak <<a href="mailto:bilge.tutak@gmail.com">bilge.tutak@gmail.com</a>>:<br><br>> Hi,<br>> I want to make an exact image of my mythtv box and put it on a dvd. If<br>> something<br>
> goes wrong, I do not want to install everything from the beginning again.<br>> First, how do you make an image from a system? (if possible, I think it is<br>> possible :))<br>> Assuming, I made the image and later successfully, re-deployed the image.
<br>> Again,<br>> assuming no hardware change, will it work as before?<br>><br>> Thank you,<br>><br>> Bilge.<br><br><br><br>--<br>Jay Swackhamer<br>Reboot The User<br>13416 A Street<br>Omaha, NE 68144<br>
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