[mythtv-users] Bad News for me...a warning to all

[David]

Kevin D. Snodgrass wrote:

> Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
>
>>> Backups are definately your friend :)
>>
>>
>>
>> Another very cool program to check out is mondorescue. You can create 
>> a full bare-metal recovery disc set, backup to CD/DVD, ISO image 
>> file, NFS, local HD, etc., incrementals, differentials, fulls, etc...
>>
>> http://www.mondorescue.org/
>>
>> I've contemplated installing a box, creating a mondo restore image of 
>> it, then making that image available...
>>
>
> I've always used:
>
> dd if=/dev/hdx|gzip -best > somefile.gz
>
> Just make sure somefile.gz is on a different partition. :-)  Actually, 
> it's best if /dev/hdx isn't mounted.
>
> All you need  to recreate then is a bootable floppy (minimal kernel, 
> just enough to deal with your /dev/hdx and the location of the .gz) 
> with busybox (http://www.busybox.net/) setup to be ash, dd and zcat.  
> Or you can install the hdd into another machine and do it there.
>
Not the backup approach I'd use :)

I prefer : http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

It's fast because it does incremental changes; you can access 
'snapshots' that represent the system at the time of the backup; and you 
have simple file level access to your backups.

But for restoration Knoppix (KnoppMyth) seems pretty cool - no messing 
about wondering what admin apps you have (eg if you need lvm2, xfs etc) 
- you have a full OS to play with.

David
PS of course you need a custom Knoppix with emacs instead of vi to edit 
/etc/fstab ...