Backup booting

[Les Mikesell]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Nils Kassube wrote:
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>   
>>> Nils Kassube wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>>       
>>>>>     When I boot the backup it goes quite a ways but errors out
>>>>> looking for some std USB things. That seems to be wrong. Here are
>>>>> the parts of both menu.lst and fstab for review. I am certain
>>>>> menu.lst is working.
>>>>>         
>>>> Well, I don't see anything suspicious in your menu.lst or fstab. And
>>>> "some std USB things" isn't very specific - could you post the actual
>>>> error message?
>>>>       
>>>     Hi Nils, I do not know how to do that. 
>>>     
>> Um, how about writing it down? Yes, I know, pen and paper is sooo last 
>> century :)
>>
>>   
>>>     I do not think dmesq is even 
>>> written when it stops. 
>>>     
>> That depends - if the error happens before / is mounted, it can't be 
>> written to the disk, but if it happens late enough during the boot 
>> process, you might find something in one of the files in /var. Have a 
>> look at the files messages, syslog, syslog.0, kern.log. 
>>
>>   
>>> So what do you recommend as a way to bring the 
>>> error message? I probably need to read it too :-)
>>>     
>> I think you would have to reboot with the trouble disk and wait for the 
>> message. And if you don't want to write it down, you could use a digital 
>> camera and take a photo.
>>
>>
>> Nils
>>
>>   
>     Nils, if the rsync backup is good I should not be having these 
> problems. I think there is something basic wrong. After getting the grub 
> and fstab right it should come right up.
> 
>     I think the rsync backup is bad. here is what I used:
> 
> karl at karl-desktop:~$ cat /root/bin/backup
> # This file is designed to backup my Ubuntu to the USB Hard Drive using 
> rsync
> # Karl Larsen, 26 Feb 08
> rsync -av /boot /media/disk/
> rsync -av /bin  /media/disk/
> rsync -av /dev  /media/disk/
> rsync -av /etc  /media/disk/
> rsync -av /lib  /media/disk/
> rsync -av /opt  /media/disk/
> rsync -av /root /media/disk/
> rsync -av /sbin /media/disk/
> rsync -av /tmp /media/disk/
> rsync -av /usr /media/disk/
> rsync -av /var /media/disk/
> rsync -av /initrd /media/disk/
> karl at karl-desktop:~$
> 
> I had to make a /home directory after the fact.

I usually copy / too, and add the --one-file-system option to keep it 
from recursing down mount points.  That way you'll get the directory 
entries for /proc, /sys, /dev, etc. and anything else you might have missed.

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   Les Mikesell
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