Comments on: System Tar and Restore – A Versatile System Backup Script for Linux

By: Ruedi

Ruedi — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 21:10:23 +0000

Hi, I've done a few backups with your tool... Unfortunately, I'll get stocked with a restore to do. I've set up a raspberry-pi with an SD card mmcblk0 with 2 partitions on it. mmcblk0p1 for /boot and mmcblk0p2 for /. I've tried to restore all I've backed to the same locations. star.sh -i 1 -r /dev/mmcblk0p2 -b /dev/mmcblk0p1 -S /dev/mmcblk0 -f Backup-rsplx001-20201223-062518.tar.xz I've always got an error: [ERROR] No partitions found Can you help me? Kind regards Ruedi

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 01:01:10 +0000

How would you use this to build a custom system locally in VirtualBox or VMware Workstation and then restore the backup image to a VPS ? Clearly a couple significant config issues will be:

* /etc/hosts 
* /etc/resolv.conf
* /etc/sysconfig/network
* /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-[devid]

But that's something we can deal with.. the question is really how can you carbon-copy your working local system to a bare-install VPS image?

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 06:22:27 +0000

In reply to jonathan.

@Jonathan

Welcome, thanks for the feedback.

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 23:30:42 +0000

The required packages don’t appear to be available, in Linux Mint Xfce 18.3, without adding unspecified repositories.

By: Aaron Kili

Aaron Kili — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 17:39:38 +0000

In reply to viktor.

@viktor

This is actually a system backup tool, but check out the help page to see if you can backup only a specific directory and restore it later if required