Backup and Recovery How-To

Linux Complete Backup and Recovery HOWTO

Imagine your disk drive has just become a very expensive hockey puck. Imagine you have had a fire, and your computer case now looks like something Salvador Dalï would like to paint. Now what?

Total restore, sometimes called bare metal recovery, is the process of rebuilding a computer after a catastrophic failure. In order to make a total restoration, you must have complete backups, not only of your file system, but of partition information and other data. This HOWTO is a step-by-step tutorial on how to back up a Linux computer so as to be able to make a bare metal recovery, and how to make that bare metal recovery. It includes some related scripts.

• Table of Contents
• 1. Introduction
   
• 1.1. Copyright Information
• 1.2. Disclaimers
• 1.3. New Versions
• 1.4. Credits
• 1.5. Feedback
• 1.6. Translations


• 2. Overview
   
• 2.1. Limitations


• 3. Preparation
   
• 3.1. Installing the ZIP Drive


• 4. Creating the Stage 1 Back Up
   
• 4.1. Theme And Variations


• 5. First Stage Restore
   
• 5.1. Booting
• 5.2. Restoration


• 6. Second Stage Restoration
• 7. Distribution Specific Notes
   
• 7.1. Fedora Core 3 and 4
• 7.2. Knoppix
• 7.3. finnix


• 8. Application Specific Notes
   
• 8.1. Logical Volume Manager
• 8.2. Selinux
• 8.3. GRUB
• 8.4. Tripwire
• 8.5. Squid
• 8.6. Arkeia
• 8.7. Amanda
• 8.8. NTFS


• 9. Some Advice for Disaster Recovery
• 10. What Now?
   
• 10.1. To Do


• 11. The Scripts
   
• 11.1. First Stage
• 11.2. Second Stage
• 11.3. Backup Server Scripts


• 12. Resources
• A. GNU Free Documentation License
   
• 0. PREAMBLE
• 1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
• 2. VERBATIM COPYING
• 3. COPYING IN QUANTITY
• 4. MODIFICATIONS
• 5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
• 6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
• 7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
• 8. TRANSLATION
• 9. TERMINATION
• 10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
• 11. How to use this License for your documents

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