| Revision History | ||
|---|---|---|
| Revision 1.6 | 2004-04-29 | Revised by: c^2 |
| Added Knoppix notes, Syslinux, PPART, QtParted, some other rescue CDs, and made some fixes. | ||
| Revision 1.5 | 2003-12-19 | Revised by: c^2 |
| Fedora and GRUB notes. | ||
| Revision 1.4 | 2003-08-17 | Revised by: c^2 |
| Some notes on burning CD-ROMs, and more on files to exclude. | ||
| Revision 1.3 | 2003-04-24 | Revised by: c^2 |
| Substituted new email address and URL for old. | ||
| Revision 1.2 | 2003-02-12 | Revised by: c^2 |
| Added Red Hat 8.0 notes, support for FAT32, split the first stage restore scripts, and other minor changes. Notes on Amanda. | ||
| Revision 1.1 | 2002-09-10 | Revised by: c^2 |
| New code to handle ext3 partitions in make.fdisk, and a note on initrd. | ||
| Revision 1.0 | 2002-07-24 | Revised by: c^2 |
| We now use bz2 compression in the first stage, have the run time option to check for bad blocks, and have a script that runs the entire first stage. | ||
Imagine your disk drive has just become a very expensive hockey puck. Imagine you have had a fire, and your computer case now looks like something Salvador Dalĩ would like to paint. Now what?
Total restore, sometimes called bare metal recovery, is the process of rebuilding a computer after a catastrophic failure. In order to make a total restoration, you must have complete backups, not only of your file system, but of partition information and other data. This HOWTO is a step-by-step tutorial on how to back up a Linux computer so as to be able to make a bare metal recovery, and how to make that bare metal recovery. It includes some related scripts.
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