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Old 15th July 2011
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When you find you have questions about backing up and restoring, please start a new thread...if Ocicat hasn't split this off to another thread by then.

Some things for you to think about, as you wind your way to self-sufficiency...

Where would you go first to find out about backing up, and restoring? And then where would you look?

Why would jggimi recommend restoring /etc or /var before any other partition? What's in there that its critical to restoring a system? (Yes, I would make that recommendation.)

The ramdisk kernel has restore(8) included, but it will not run on the ramdisk kernel until you provision something. You will get an error message telling you something is missing. You should try this, get the error message, and see if you can figure out what is needed, and what to do.

How do you install boot blocks on your architecture? Why would you need to know how? Where would you go to find out what to do?
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