Ubuntu Manpage: bootcdbackup - create a bootable offline backup of a unix system

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.

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