I am "scratching an itch" for a simple, schedulable (cron), "bare-metal" backup & restore system, for all my "desktop" Linux systems. And, I am having a bit of fun with the Python sh and lvm2py modules!

This project is still in Development, but I will attempt to keep master always in a working state.

I have more Notes coming - here's what I have, for now. I have tested only on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. However, I will create a CentOS 6 Docker container, to then add support and test for RHEL.

Go get this project, from Github, and set it up :

git clone https://github.com/biggers/fsarchiver_backup.git

cd fsarchiver_backup

Set-up this project's Python environment, for pip and required packages.:. Refer to the Makefile in this project, for details.:

make install

First, review the filesystems and LVM logical volumes on your desktop Linux system.:

NOTE: the volume group that you want to use, and what LVs you might want to backup - the default is all LVs.:

sudo vgs  # NOTE: the volume-group to use

sudo lvs  # NOTE: what LVs you might want to backup (default is all)

cat /etc/fstab

df -h     # NOTE: what is the /boot or /root filesystem?

Copy config_edit.py to config.py, then edit for your backup Storage and other paths.

cp config_edit.py config.py

emacs config.py

It's simple: :

sudo make run

You'll get some "feedback" from the LVM commands, at least. I am working on getting some output from fsarchiver.

This is an fsarchiver forum entry. My code is based on this how-to... Info on doing a bare metal restore using fsarchiver.

http://www.fsarchiver.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1218

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