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Re: Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM?

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Hello,

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 07:01:07AM +0100, solitone wrote:
> Thanks to the back2l utility I have a full backup of Debian. Now I
> would reinstall it and recover all the backed up files. However, I
> didn’t use LVM and now I would. In this case, would the
> adjustments needed from the original configuration be difficult?

Probably the differences will be small and it will mostly work,
however "mostly" can still result in a great deal of frustrating
debugging, so personally if I were you I'd:

- Install Debian again how I wanted, with LVM or whatever

- Configure the services again, possibly referring to (but not
  simply bulk-overwriting existing directory trees with) my backups

- Copy my data back into place from the backups

It's not as quick as "press a button, there, it's re-imaged", but it
avoids introducing new problems.

Cheers,
Andy

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Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM? solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2018-11-19 07:10 +0100
  Re: Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-11-19 12:40 +0100
    Re: Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM? solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2018-11-19 16:40 +0100
      Re: Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-19 17:10 +0100
        Re: Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM? solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2018-11-19 17:50 +0100
  Re: Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM? solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2018-11-19 16:40 +0100
    Re: Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-11-20 00:30 +0100
      Re: Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM? Johann Spies <johann.spies@gmail.com> - 2018-11-20 07:30 +0100
        Re: Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2018-11-20 11:40 +0100
          Re: Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2018-11-20 11:50 +0100
        Re: Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM? Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-11-20 22:50 +0100
  Re: Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2018-11-19 22:00 +0100

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