[Discuss] Backup linux desktops/workstations

[Richard Pieri]

On 6/16/2012 10:50 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> rsnapshot looks like a pretty cool & unique way of doing things.  Quite a
> lot of good coverage there.  But it would be difficult to restore your OS
> onto a new hard drive if you needed to.

Not really.  Assuming a new, clean drive:

* Boot a Live CD of your choice, enable networking.
* Create the partitions and file systems to match the original.
* rsync -avSHP user at server:/path/to/snapshot /
* install GRUB and reboot.

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Rich P.