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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I’d suggest G4L (Ghost for linux)
using the Ultimate-Boot-CD as a source. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>It’ll take a ghost-like sector image
of a partition or disk and upload to FTP server, then to recover, you can boot
off the UBCD again and slurp it down from the FTP to disk. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
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mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Bilge Tutak<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 22 October 2006 02:04<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Discussion about mythtv<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [mythtv-users] image
of mythtv system</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Actually,<br>
What I want to do is not a backup. It is just a system disk trying to save a
lot of time when I need a reinstall. <br>
I am already backing up my database and recordings regularly. What I want
exactly is I think, just after a fresh install, <br>
I will make the image, so I will not bother with what is inside the database or
the recordings :). When something happes,<br>
I will just boot the DVD install/expand image tadaa I have my fresh system
back. It is like creating another knoppix/gentoo/... system, but it is specific
to my hardware with the myth and everything installed. <br>
<br>
Thanks for the ideas,<br>
<br>
Bilge.<br>
<br>
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<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailquote><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 10/21/06, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Jay
Swackhamer</span></b> <<a href="mailto:Jay@reboottheuser.com">Jay@reboottheuser.com</a>>
wrote: </span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hello,<br>
<br>
I typically make a simple tar/compressed image of systems that I want<br>
to re-deploy.<br>
<br>
I boot off of a gentoo cd or other livecd.<br>
mount your filesystems( / /boot )<br>
startup nfs<br>
mkdir /mnt/tmp<br>
mount a remote server ie nfsserver:/opt/backup /mnt/tmp<br>
cd /mnt/gentoo<br>
tar cvfz /mnt/tmp/mythtv_img.tgz * <br>
<br>
<br>
Quoting Bilge Tutak <<a href="mailto:bilge.tutak@gmail.com">bilge.tutak@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<br>
> Hi,<br>
> I want to make an exact image of my mythtv box and put it on a dvd. If<br>
> something<br>
> goes wrong, I do not want to install everything from the beginning again.<br>
> First, how do you make an image from a system? (if possible, I think it is<br>
> possible :))<br>
> Assuming, I made the image and later successfully, re-deployed the image. <br>
> Again,<br>
> assuming no hardware change, will it work as before?<br>
><br>
> Thank you,<br>
><br>
> Bilge.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
--<br>
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