Simple Backup problems

[Brian McKee]

On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 18:34 +0600, Faizan Kazi wrote:
> Can TimeVault, Flyback, Backintime, rsync and other such softwares
> that copy file by file really be used to completely restore a system?

Yes.  In Linux 'everything is a file' so to speak.

You can prove this to yourself by taking spare harddrive, formatting and
mounting it on your system and simply rsyncing the current drive to the
new one.  Then pull the original drive.

The only additional step you need is installing a new boot record (which
you can do before swapping them, or by using a 'rescue' or 'Live' cd
afterwards to install grub.

Mondo (http://www.mondorescue.org/) does basically that (only it uses
afio rather than rsync etc) and adds partition and boot record
restoration on top to make a complete restore package.

Brian
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