Equivalent to System restore?

[Dookus]

Hi all.

gave my partner a fairly decent laptop to replace her ageing 10 plus year old unit, the ageing unit was running LL 1.08 and she was used to it and happy to use it though the thing would lag terribly sometimes, so I installed LL2 on a duel core AMD Asus APU, got it ready with all the stuff she uses, the Laptop has no battery and sadly the Power Supply was accidental pulled after she got it home and the unit is asking for a keyring when she tries to connect to her wireless network now.

I'll fix that tomoz as she has a job close to my place and I will be able to get it done before she has to go home.

My thought was, for people like my partner, who have a problem like this ... is there any way a roll-back or system restore option could be enabled, or a program to do this type of repair, I was away from home when she rang me and was at a lose as to how to help her over the phone.

I understand that Linux is not about creating gigs of data in-case something happens, data that would be used roll back the system to before the problem occurred.

Though any thoughts on what one could do to help to created a routine that anyone could be followed to help one to get the system back to a working state once a crucial error occurs would be appreciated.
Cheers.

J

[rokytnji]

If I am wrong. Ignore me.

System restore in linux is done with backups. Like

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem

Things you can look into using

http://www.fsarchiver.org/Main_Page

http://redobackup.org/

Once you get your friend setup the way you want. Then you can use the REDO live iso to back a compressed backup of whole partition to a separate partition or drive. That would be your system restore.

Look like you have some studying to do. 8)

I think the hard part is doing a on the fly backup and restore on a running system. I feel a lot safer doing this outside of a running session.

[paul59]

Rsync is worth looking into :

http://www.tecmint.com/rsync-local-remot...-commands/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ful...with_rsync


Paul

[rijnsma]

I always use Clonezilla (usabillity 100% after some learning http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~spescha/wiki/til/backup_howto ) and Remastersys (not maintained anymore I believe; big pity for Ubuntu's and livecd-lovers in general http://www.remastersys.com/  ).
Remastersys is not restricted to HD-space or pc.

I do have Redo backup (rather easy, but bugs), never tried to restore something with it (yet).

Fsarchiver looks great, but I did try to restore something sometime ago and it did something wrong with the filesystem (wrong fs), so I don't know.

For the 'short information' I use Kbackup and Ark or something like it for restore.
But there are more nice programs of course.

[rokytnji]

Just another

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qt4-fsarchiver/

[rijnsma]

Just another

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qt4-fsarchiver/

That is fsarchiver, but the GUI.

[N4RPS]

Hello!

I use Redo Backup regularly. It is especially helpful in backing up combined Linux/Windows systems.

Suddenly losing power can be a real pain. Replacement batteries for older laptops are quite inexpensive online - usually in the $30 range, depending on your model. I've even ran into a few for under $20!

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

[shengchieh]

I have

hardware - howto
Backups
http://www.tpci.com/linux_backup_software.htm (Linux Backup Softwares)
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ (rsync)
http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/March2...e326.shtml (rsync)
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Complete...ery-HOWTO/ (Linux Complete Backup and Recovery HOWTO)
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lame/LAME/linux-...store.html (Backup and Restore Procedures; date???)

softwares
Backups
http://www.rsnapshot.org (non-commercial; rsnapshot)
http://www.partimage.org/ (non-commercial; Partition Image)
http://cdtar.sourceforge.net/ (non-commercial; cdtar)
http://konserve.sourceforge.net/ (non-commercial; Konserve)
http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ (non-commercial; g4u)
http://dar.linux.free.fr/ (non-commercial; DAR)
http://www.amanda.org/ (non-commercial; AMANDA)
http://mkcdrec.ota.be/project/index.html (non-commercial; mkCDrec)
http://www.dirvish.org/ (non-commercial: DIRVISH)
http://sbackup.sourceforge.net/HomePage (non-commercial; SBackup)
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ (non-commercial; BackupPC)
http://www.sysresccd.org/ (non-commercial; SystemRescueCd)
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ (non-commercial; rdiff-backup)
http://www.bacula.org/en/ (non-commercial: Bacula)
http://kbackup.sourceforge.net/ (non-commercial: KBackup)
http://backintime.le-web.org/ (non-commercial: Back In Time)
http://www.fsarchiver.org/Main_Page (non-commercial: FSArchiver)
http://luckybackup.sourceforge.net/ (non-commercial: luckyBackup)
http://www.opbyte.it/grsync/ (non-commercial: Grsync)
http://www.mondorescue.org/ (non-commercial: Mondo Rescue)
https://spideroak.com/ (non-commercial; SpiderOak; online backup; includes sync and sharing)
http://www.crashplan.com/consumer/crashplan.html (commercial; free software, but paid storage; CrashPlan)
http://www.arkeia.com/ (commercial; Arkeia)
http://www.veritas.com/ (commercial; VERITAS )
http://www.thekompany.com/products/tkbackup/ (commercial: tkBackup)
http://www.acronis.com/ (commercial; Acronis)
http://visualversion.com/backupsw/index.html (commercial; BackupSW)
http://www.getdropbox.com/ (DropBox)
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Web/Utilities/...ndex.shtml (various utilities)
http://www.linux.org/apps/all/Administra...ackup.html (various utilities)
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=895 (10 outstanding Linux backup utilities; list; 7/21/09)
http://www.datamation.com/open-source/60...are-1.html (60 OS Replacements for Storage Software; software list include compression, database, data recovery, etc; October 15, 2012)

Pardon the redundancies (cop and pasted from  my website).

Sheng-Chieh

[riser]

I have used fs-archiver and other tools for OS backup.  Currently I am using Timeshift.

Regards,
riser

[rijnsma]

I have

hardware - howto
Backups
http://www.tpci.com/linux_backup_software.htm (Linux Backup Softwares)
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ (rsync)
http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/March2...e326.shtml (rsync)
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Complete...ery-HOWTO/ (Linux Complete Backup and Recovery HOWTO)
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/lame/LAME/linux-...store.html (Backup and Restore Procedures; date???)

softwares
Backups
http://www.rsnapshot.org (non-commercial; rsnapshot)
http://www.partimage.org/ (non-commercial; Partition Image)
http://cdtar.sourceforge.net/ (non-commercial; cdtar)
http://konserve.sourceforge.net/ (non-commercial; Konserve)
http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ (non-commercial; g4u)
http://dar.linux.free.fr/ (non-commercial; DAR)
http://www.amanda.org/ (non-commercial; AMANDA)
http://mkcdrec.ota.be/project/index.html (non-commercial; mkCDrec)
http://www.dirvish.org/ (non-commercial: DIRVISH)
http://sbackup.sourceforge.net/HomePage (non-commercial; SBackup)
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ (non-commercial; BackupPC)
http://www.sysresccd.org/ (non-commercial; SystemRescueCd)
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ (non-commercial; rdiff-backup)
http://www.bacula.org/en/ (non-commercial: Bacula)
http://kbackup.sourceforge.net/ (non-commercial: KBackup)
http://backintime.le-web.org/ (non-commercial: Back In Time)
http://www.fsarchiver.org/Main_Page (non-commercial: FSArchiver)
http://luckybackup.sourceforge.net/ (non-commercial: luckyBackup)
http://www.opbyte.it/grsync/ (non-commercial: Grsync)
http://www.mondorescue.org/ (non-commercial: Mondo Rescue)
https://spideroak.com/ (non-commercial; SpiderOak; online backup; includes sync and sharing)
http://www.crashplan.com/consumer/crashplan.html (commercial; free software, but paid storage; CrashPlan)
http://www.arkeia.com/ (commercial; Arkeia)
http://www.veritas.com/ (commercial; VERITAS )
http://www.thekompany.com/products/tkbackup/ (commercial: tkBackup)
http://www.acronis.com/ (commercial; Acronis)
http://visualversion.com/backupsw/index.html (commercial; BackupSW)
http://www.getdropbox.com/ (DropBox)
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Web/Utilities/...ndex.shtml (various utilities)
http://www.linux.org/apps/all/Administra...ackup.html (various utilities)
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=895 (10 outstanding Linux backup utilities; list; 7/21/09)
http://www.datamation.com/open-source/60...are-1.html (60 OS Replacements for Storage Software; software list include compression, database, data recovery, etc; October 15, 2012)

Pardon the redundancies (cop and pasted from  my website).

Sheng-Chieh

Fantastic list. Thanks a lot! But no live-cd (or did I overlook?), like Remastersys or Mylivecd, which is not supported
any longer.

An image is not working after install on a really different machine. Only an alternate ISO or a live-ISO is.
Not the end of the world, then you make a fresh install of some distro and build with your own data,
but it is very comfortable to be able to save your system in a private livecd/dvd of pendrive and install thát version
in other pc's. That was for me always one of the 'specialties of Linux'. Or to put your system on a pendrive, which
is very easy with live-medium.

I have Redo Backup right now, but it restores to HD, not partition and I do fear it also will do something with MBR.
And there's the information of my multiboot system....