can makepkg backup my entire system
Hello Bob:
I thought I would save the time that trial and error would occupy by asking fellow slackers first before I tried the following idea for backing up my system: If I booted the system I wanted to backup (because I want to easily clone it to other machines) from an external drive (so I wouldn't be using the internal system I want to back up), and then mounted my root partition somewhere, and my other partitions, such as /var and /tmp inside the root's mountpoint, such that I could chroot into that directory if I wanted to; if I did all that, couldn't I just cd (not chroot) into that directory, and then use makepkg /path/to/backup.tgz to make a slackpack of my entire system? It makes sense to me, but I would hate to go through all of that for nothing, so I thought I would ask first. Thanks in advance. (oh yeah, I'm running slackware 12.2) |
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Also does makepkg require a slackdesc file? It might fail without one, which would be another reason not to use makepkg. |
I recommend you just use clonezilla to clone the system.
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thanks
Thanks piratesmack: the multicasting feature of clonezilla looks like it will really be a time saver... (i am recycling old computers and giving them to home schooled students, and was looking for a way to batch install); thanks.
It is not hard, though to add an install directory and a 11-line slack-desc file. When recycling ppc computers, I work with the ppc port of slackware, called slackintosh, and there are few precompiled binaries for slackintosh, so I found my self writing slack-desc files so much that I used perl to automate the process. I did overlook the slack-desc in my post, but I think that makepkg would do the job (if I didn't just discover clonezilla)... but as brixtoncalling points out... it is just tar and gunzip with some symlink and ownership scripts... so could just scip slack-desc and use tar and gunzip... whichever's quickest:) My only remaining question: If I used makepkg (or tar/gunzip), and then mounted a different system and used isntallpkg (or tar -zxf) to install the backup.tgz to the different system, I probably would have to run lilo again to make the new system bootable. What about with clonezilla. Are the clones bootable, or would I have to run lilo again? |
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