5 Jun
2012
5 Jun
'12
9:22 a.m.
Hi Joseph,
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 09:59:01AM +0100, Joseph Heenan wrote:
I do take backups (regular rsyncs of / from my VPS to
a machine here)
- I've never needed to actually call on them though, apart from
recovering the odd file lost due to human error.
I've always wondered: is there a procedure that allows such full
backups to be restored back onto a VPS in the event of a total loss?
It depends what form your backups take.
If you had a tar.gz file then you might boot into rescue
environment, mount your block device, unpack tar.gz over the top of
it.
If you had a disk image file you might boot into rescue environment
and cat or dd the image over your block device.
Seems like most people only back up data and configuration though.
Cheers,
Andy
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