Restoring with the script is especially thought for splitted backup.
You can also restore backups, which fited on one CD, with the script, but
this might be easier doing it manually
. Don't expect any gui, when it comes to restoring. It's just a question
and answering game. Here we go:
CDBL> /usr/cdbl/restore.pl
*** CDBL restoring script ***
NO WARRANTY ! If you use this program, you could lose data.
See helprestore.txt for more informations.
Press Ctrl-C to abort at any time.
If you give wrong answers in this game, you could overwrite an existing
harddisk partition, which might result in lost of data. It may also be
possible, that the restoring script has bugs... Do everything at your own
risk. To abort the script you can press Conrtrol and C at any time.
Please insert your backup-CD and
enter the device-path of your CD-ROM [/dev/scd0] :
Select the path of your CD-ROM device, where you have inserted the
backup-CD, you want to testore from. '/dev/scd0' is the default (the first
SCSI-CD-ROM).
Backup made 01.01.1999 12:00
Which partition do you want to restore?
hda1 hda3 hdb1 sda1
You can see, when the backup was made. Select one of the proposed partitions
(the may be different on your backup). The listed partitions are all partitions
which were backed up at that time. Maybe some of them are on another CD.
If this is so, you will be asked to insert the right CD afterwards.
fdisk-line of backup:
/dev/sda1
1 1
116 118768 83 Linux native
Enter the partition-name, where you want to restore the backup to
(e.g. 'sda1')
or enter one or several harddisk-names (e.g. 'hda sda') to see a
list
of it's partitions:
Ok, in this example I've selected 'sda1'. The fdisk-line which is shown,
was made as the partition was backed up. It gives you informations about
how big the partition is and of which filesystem type it is. Then you are
asked to enter either one partition name or one or several harddisk names.
If you enter the name of a partition (with a number in it's name), the
actaul fdisk-line of that partition will be shown. E.g.:
Your partition:
/dev/sda1
1 1
116 118768 83 Linux native
Otherwise, when you enter one (several) harddisk name(s), you will
see the partition table of that (those) harddisk(s). E.g.:
Your harddisk(s):
/dev/hda1
1 1
10 2780 83 Linux native
/dev/hda2
11 11
943 261240 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
...
/dev/sda1
1 1
116 118768 83 Linux native
Please enter the name of the partition to restore to (e.g. 'sda1'):
You hopefully now can decide to which partition you want to restore
the selected backup to. Enter it's name.
Sure [N]?
This is the last chance to abort. If you answer 'N', the question-answering
game starts again at the question, where you were asked: 'Enter the partition-name,
where you want to restore the backup to ...?'. So, if you said 'Y', the
restoring process begins directly, if it's a backup type 'dd'. If its type
is 'tgz' you will have the possibility to format the destination partition
before:
Should the partition be (re-)formated first (all data will be deleted)
[N] ?
The partition, where you want to restore the backup to should be correctly
formated. If this is not the case (or if you want to delete existing files),
say 'Y' to this question.
Which filesystem type (ext2, FAT or FAT32 ) [ext2] ?
For a Linux-partition select 'ext2' for a Windows-partition FAT or
FAT32.
Afterwards, the destination partition will be formated and finally
also the tgz-backup will be resotred to that partition.