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Backup Linode. Restore to prgmr.com?

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I'm currently running Debian 5 on Linode, and my aim is to be able to back this up and restore to a Debian 5 install on a different provider (currently prgmr.com) for disaster recovery purposes.

I'm backing up the following to Amazon S3:

/bin

/etc

/home

/lib

/opt

/root

/sbin

/srv

/usr

/var

Is this enough to restore back to a host, after installing a base Debian 5 platform? I've ignored more hardware/kernel specific stuff. Is this a correct decision?

Basically, can I restore these directories to a base Debian 5 install at prgmr and it having up and running?

Thanks,

Richard

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As long as whatever you compile from source ends up in /usr/local and not the main FS, you should be able to skip /bin, /sbin, /lib, and /usr/ except of /usr/local .

Just make your backup script export the list of installed packages

(dpkg –get-selections , aptitude search '?installed' , something like that) you can install the base OS, then the packages, THEN overwrite the configs and put your data in… I think.

Of course, it still won't be a plug-and-go, there wil be some things, networking settings being the first thing that come to mind, that'll need editing.

Thanks.

I don't have anything compiled from source, hence copying all the binaries.

Good idea, or bad?

Cheers,

Richard

@hobbes7:

Thanks.

I don't have anything compiled from source, hence copying all the binaries.

Good idea, or bad?

Cheers,

Richard

Bad. You're better off getting a package list and reinstalling

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