"Bare Metal Recovery"

[Gregory J. Neumann]

Saw the post on the "Window Washing"! LOL!  It's usually less time consuming than 
"scandisk" and "defrag"!

Saw this in the HOWTO's update and thought it would be helpful in situations where 
the HD dies, or stuff like that.  FWIW, I really LIKE my Intel "all in one" board.  
Has the EtherExpress Pro 10/100 and Crystal Sound, and both are found right off by 
Mandrake.  And the drivers are easy to set up in Slackware, too.  I guess that's 
the rub.  Get a "no-name" all-in-one for cheap and wonder if drivers that work 
under any O/S exist, or get something like an Intel all-in-one, and then be paying 
nearly as much as the separate pieces.  Anyway, heres' the link to the new howto:


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Total restore, sometimes called bare metal recovery, is the process
of rebuilding a computer after a catastrophic failure. In order to
make a total restoration, you must have complete backups, not only
of your file system, but of partition information and other data.
This HOWTO is a step-by-step tutorial on how to back up a Linux
computer so as to be able to make a bare metal recovery, and how
to make that bare metal recovery. It includes some related scripts.

  * NEW entry
 
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO/

-Greg