backup entire system

[Michael Havens]

well, I just restored my system using fsarchiver. YIPEE! I did it right. It
restored. It took like half an hour to restore 23GB out of a 200GB archive
(meaning 23GB of data and 177GB of empty space). Is that good or bad?

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> thanks for the help eric.... you inspired me to find the solution using
> google..... well, actually I didn't use google, I used DuckDuckGo. I like
> it better because as you scroll down the search results more is added
> instead of having to go to the next page. I think it is kinda cool that an
> identifier has been associated with all of our hardware by linux
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:29 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com <
> kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
>
>> The problem is that there is a UUID in the /etc/fstab file with no device
>> to match it to.
>> If it is the swap, run:
>> swapon -s
>> and you'll see that swap didn't get mounted.
>> I advitsed you about this in one of me previous messages.
>> Options:
>> look at /etc/fstab and:
>> find what is mounted with UUID and replace it with the device's or,
>> find what is mounted with UUID and replace the device's UUID..
>> ET
>> PS: Or use 'raw device' (ei: /dev/sdaN) to identify the device on
>> /etc/fstab
>>
>>
>> Michael Havens writes:
>>
>>> I successfuly repartitioned it. Sorta...... As it is loading an error
>>> appears on the screen that says
>>>     The disk drive for UUID=07f5933-9b67-4105-b9ae-**0d0174fe759d is not
>>> ready yet or not present.
>>> and then it says to wait or press cntrl-D (I think) or S to skip
>>> mounting.
>>> So I do one of the two options and the operating system loads.
>>> The only thing I can think of that might be causing this is that I moved
>>> the swap partition. I also made it smaller because gparted would not
>>> create
>>> it the same size as it was originally. gparted said it was 4.6GB but now
>>> it
>>> is 4.56GB.
>>> What  can I do to fix this?
>>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Dale Farnsworth <dale at farnsworth.org>wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> > well, I am almost ready to repartition my drive. But I have a
>>>> question to
>>>> > get opinions on; what is the difference between reiser4 and ext4? What
>>>> are
>>>> > the benefits and drawbacks of each?
>>>> You don't want to use reiser4 unless you have a specific,
>>>> well-understood
>>>> reason for doing so.  I consider reiser4 obsolescent and it has never
>>>> had
>>>> the reliability of ext3/4.  On the other hand, ext4 is a mainstream,
>>>> well-supported FS.
>>>> Dale Farnsworth
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