Re: [gNewSense-users] Backup methods

[Sam Geeraerts]

Stayvoid wrote:
> > Are you hoping to do a 'bare metal restore'? (a snapshot of the machine
> > as it was at that moment). If so, you need almost everything. (Auto
> > generated things like /proc, /dev and /tmp are obvious exceptions).
> Yes.
>
> I don't want to configure everything if I break something.
> So I'm looking for a script which can backup everything and restore
> everything back.

I believe MondoRescue can do a full backup of a live system and easily 
restore it from bare metal.

> But I want to know which dirs should be copied.

You said "everything", so that's / minus /proc, /dev, /tmp and /sys.