How to recover with a full backup?
Volker Wysk
post at volker-wysk.de
Sat Dec 9 14:26:29 UTC 2017
Hi!
I'm making preparations for the case when I can no longer boot my machine, and I'm not able to recover with the GRUB recovery mode.
I have a full backup, which includes the system as well as personal data.
When I can't recover, I would install the system anew, from the Kubuntu installation ISO. Then I would unpack my backup, in some directory /backup. Now, how to get a running system again, from that? Could I just replace the top level directories with ones from the backup? Such as:
cd /
mv /bin bin.tmp
bin.tmp/mv backup/bin bin
rm -r bin.tmp
Now, how to make it bootable? Can I just do:
grub-install /dev/sda
Cheers,
Volker
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