LJ Article on backing up your system & restoring
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:01 am
Good read:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8680
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8680
I wrote a bash script to backup important stuff (/home and my CVS repository) to a 100 Gig partition on my wife's system. I also back up her home directory to my system, and I'm done.
Of course I see wiping and reinstalling in case something happens as an opportunity to do a better job, rather than a catastrophy. I log every change I make as root so I've got pretty good documentation on how to get my system back the way it was.
If you have everything the way you want and just want to get it back, this article is a good solution. I reconfigure enough that I usually don't want things back the way they were, I just don't want to lose data.