Rodrigo Real wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Holger Parplies wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Andreas Micklei wrote on 2008-12-15 10:13:38 +0100 [Re: [BackupPC-users] 
>> Backing up the backup to an external USB drive]:
>>> Am Freitag, 12. Dezember 2008 schrieb Rich Rauenzahn:
>>>> Some of you running dd might want to consider "dump"
>>>> [...]
>>> I have been doing that for about two years now. Works great!
>> I've been meaning to ask/point this out for some time now. Has anyone 
>> actually
>> tried *restoring* a dump of a *reasonably sized* pool? The reason I'm asking 
>> is
>> that as far as I understand the man page, restore runs completely in user
>> space, so it is faced with the same problem as cp/rsync/tar - the need to 
>> keep
>> an inode-to-path-name mapping for correctly re-creating hardlinks. It is
>> possible that restore can handle this problem, but I wouldn't take it for
>> granted without testing.
> 
> The restore issue is the reason that targets me to a sort of live system 
> which I can easily test and use  any time I want. I prefer to waste some 
> time more while doing the backup and than to do a fast backup and spent 
> a lot of time to recover it in case of "disaster". That's why I want to 
> have this live USB-HD.
> 
I thought about something similar a while back.  I never got anywhere
with it, but the plan was to use Knoppix or Knoppix-like technology to
have all the hardware automatically detected and configured at boot.
That way the hard drive could be installed in any machine and it would
work.

This info may be outdated:  Knoppix has 3 configuration options for a
hard drive installation.  The one you would want is called "Knoppix",
and it basically runs the live cd system on a hard drive.  All the live
cd startup scripts run, so hardware is detected automatically.

I don't think Knoppix would be the best distro to use, due to its
mish-mash of repositories, but maybe a Debian live cd or Ubuntu live cd
would do the trick for you.  I'm just not sure how to install them to
the hard drive in "Knoppix" mode.

-Rob
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