NAME¶
bootcdbackup - create a bootable offline backup of a unix system
SYNOPSIS¶
bootcdbackup [-i] [-v] [-s] [-c <config directory>] [-url <url]
[-nomount] [-2diskconf <file>] <dev> <name>
<builddir>
DESCRIPTION¶
bootcdbackup creates a offline backup from a installed system. You need a
running
bootcd to boot the system with. This CD/DVD is booted on the
system and
bootcdbackup creates a bootable CD/DVD with the bootcd
kernel and the backup disk as tar-file.
To restore or clone the system, boot the CD/DVD image and install it with
bootcd2disk -c <name> on the system.
bootcdbackup can try to discover the disk partition by searching for
fstab on the given partition. A other way to backup the partition table is the
program
bootcdmk2diskconf which creates a configuration file on a
running system.
OPTIONS¶
- -i
- The bootcdbackup runs in interactive mode and you can run each function
manually. This option is useful for debugging.
- -v
- The option "-v" (verbose) adds messages on running.
- -s
- This option can be used to disable interactive questions and to try to
ignore errors.
- -c <config directory>
- The configuration directory which includes the file
"bootcdbackup.conf", default is "/etc/bootcd".
- -url <url>
- If bootcdbackup is slow on your system (because of a slow CD/DVD drive or
the HP ILO virtual CD interface), you can use an image server to get the
image from.
bootcdbackup use the SWAP partition of your upcoming system as temporary
space and copy the image from the configured image server to this
partition and use it as image. The image server url is configured with
this option.
- -nomount
- The target disk should not be mounted and no search for fstab is done.
- --cpio
- Normally as backup tool star will be used if selinux files have to be
backed up and cpio will be used if not. With this option the usage of cpio
can be forced.
- --star
- Normally as backup tool star will be used if selinux files have to be
backed up and cpio will be used if not. With this option the usage of star
can be forced.
- -2diskconf <file>
- The parameter configures a bootcd2disk.conf for the restore of the
system done by bootcd2disk. The configuration file can be created
with the command bootcdmk2diskconf.
- <dev>
- Configures the device where bootcdbackup finds the file "fstab"
and discover the configuration for the restore.
- <name>
- The name of the backup (no blanks!) is used on the creation time and to
restore the backup with bootcd2disk -c <name>.
- <builddir>
- Builddir is an directory on the backup system where bootcdbackup build the
backup CD/DVD. Space for the CD/DVD image, for compression and the data is
needed!
All other configuration has to be done in the config files.
FILES¶
- /etc/bootcd/bootcdbackup.conf
Configuration for bootcdbackup.
SEE ALSO¶
Documentation in bootcdbackup.conf
bootcdbackup.conf(5),
bootcd(1),
bootcdflopcp(1),
bootcdwrite(1)
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Bernd Schumacher <
bernd.schumacher@hp.com> and Carsten Dinkelmann <
Carsten.Dinkelmann@foobar-cpa.de> for the Debian GNU/Linux system
(but may be used by others).