Re: [Duplicity-talk] Restore question

[Kenneth Loafman]

I don't have a best practices for an entire system as such.  It's been
years since I've backed up even an entire filesystem, much less a full
disk.  My policy has been to never back up something that comes on an
install disk, so the only things I ever back up are data, configuration
files, and settings files.  Generally that amounts to less than half of
the files actually on the system.

Maybe someone else can fill in the blanks on this question.

...Ken

Dylan Martin wrote:
> Is there any kind of a best practices scenario for restoring an entire
> system?  How is it supposed to work in the ideal situation?
> 
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I doubt you have the paradigm wrong, but duplicity does try to do things
>> in a safe manner, so restoring over existing files is not normal for it.
>>
>> ...Ken
>>
>> Dylan Martin wrote:
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> Am I doing something unusual?  I would have thought what I was doing
>>> was common place.  This makes me worry that I'm doing it wrong, IE I
>>> have the wrong paradigm in my head.
>>>
>>> Thanks again!
>>> -Dylan
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Dylan Martin wrote:
>>>>> Hi, I've recently started using duplicity and today I'm trying to do
>>>>> my first restore.  I'm attempting to restore an entire machine.  I'm
>>>>> accustomed to using tar.  While not technically correct, the
>>>>> simplified story is I've booted to a CD, partitioned out my disk,
>>>>> formatted the filesystems and mounted them all and now I'm trying to
>>>>> restore.  This means there are existing directories within the
>>>>> filesystem, but duplicity gets angry about overwriting existing files.
>>>>>
>>>>> To clarify, I have a destination dir /mnt/machine.  Within that are
>>>>> mount points for /mnt/machine/usr, /mnt/machine/var etc...  If I try
>>>>> to restore to /mnt/machine, duplicity exits and says it won't
>>>>> overwrite an existing file.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here's the duplicity command I'm running (minus --scp-command,
>>>>> --sftp-command, actual host names etc..)
>>>>> I can get a collection status, so I know my sftp/scp stuff is working.
>>>>>
>>>>> duplicity -v9 --no-encryption scp://address@hidden/duplicity /mnt/foo
>>>>>
>>>>> How does one restore an entire machine with multiple mount points?
>>>> Add the --force option to allow duplicity to overwrite existing files
>>>> and directories.
>>>>
>>>> ...Ken
>>>>
>>>>
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