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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@hpe.com> and Carsten Dinkelmann
       <Carsten.Dinkelmann@foobar-cpa.de> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).