NAME
bootcdbackup - create a bootable offline backup of a unix system
SYNOPSIS
bootcdbackup [-i] [-v] [-s] [-c <config directory>] [-url <url]
[-nomount] [-2diskconf <file>] <dev> <name> <builddir>
DESCRIPTION
bootcdbackup creates a offline backup from a installed system. You need
a running bootcd to boot the system with. This CD/DVD is booted on the
system and bootcdbackup creates a bootable CD/DVD with the bootcd
kernel and the backup disk as tar-file.
To restore or clone the system, boot the CD/DVD image and install it
with bootcd2disk -c <name> on the system.
bootcdbackup can try to discover the disk partition by searching for
fstab on the given partition. A other way to backup the partition table
is the program bootcdmk2diskconf which creates a configuration file on
a running system.
OPTIONS
-i The bootcdbackup runs in interactive mode and you can run each
function manually. This option is useful for debugging.
-v The option "-v" (verbose) adds messages on running.
-s This option can be used to disable interactive questions and to try
to ignore errors.
-c <config directory>
The configuration directory which includes the file
"bootcdbackup.conf", default is "/etc/bootcd".
-url <url>
If bootcdbackup is slow on your system (because of a slow CD/DVD
drive or the HP ILO virtual CD interface), you can use an image
server to get the image from.
bootcdbackup use the SWAP partition of your upcoming system as
temporary space and copy the image from the configured image server
to this partition and use it as image. The image server url is
configured with this option.
-nomount
The target disk should not be mounted and no search for fstab is
done.
--cpio
Normally as backup tool star will be used if selinux files have to
be backed up and cpio will be used if not. With this option the
usage of cpio can be forced.
--star
Normally as backup tool star will be used if selinux files have to
be backed up and cpio will be used if not. With this option the
usage of star can be forced.
-2diskconf <file>
The parameter configures a bootcd2disk.conf for the restore of the
system done by bootcd2disk. The configuration file can be created
with the command bootcdmk2diskconf.
<dev>
Configures the device where bootcdbackup finds the file "fstab" and
discover the configuration for the restore.
<name>
The name of the backup (no blanks!) is used on the creation time
and to restore the backup with bootcd2disk -c <name>.
<builddir>
Builddir is an directory on the backup system where bootcdbackup
build the backup CD/DVD. Space for the CD/DVD image, for
compression and the data is needed!
All other configuration has to be done in the config files.
FILES
/etc/bootcd/bootcdbackup.conf
Configuration for bootcdbackup.
SEE ALSO
Documentation in bootcdbackup.conf
bootcdbackup.conf(5), bootcd(1), bootcdflopcp(1), bootcdwrite(1)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Bernd Schumacher
<bernd.schumacher@hp.com> and Carsten Dinkelmann
<Carsten.Dinkelmann@foobar-cpa.de> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but
may be used by others).