Re: [Duplicity-talk] How to backup the boot partition?

[Yves Goergen]

On 14.09.2010 02:22 CE(S)T, Tim Riemenschneider wrote:
>> * Mount the boot partition to the snapshot/boot directory as secondary
>> mount (how's that called? mount can do some --bind to mount a filesystem
>> at two places) so duplicity sees its real contents instead of a) a
>> symlink or b) an empty mount point directory.
>>
> That is possibly the simplest solution, since your backup-script
> probably contains already code to handle /boot (create symlink), which
> could be replaced by a bind-mount. And /boot should not change
> mid-backup, so no snapshotting/copying is needed.

That's the way I decided to do it now and it worked fine for a few times
now. The system could entirely be backed up and restored to a working
state again. And mounting is fast. :-)

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