Restoring manually

The first steps (booting) see at  Restoring with the script .

tgz

Use the common tar-command to restore. Example:
tar -xzf </cdrom/sda1.tgz.1> -C </mnt>
Replace </cdrom/sda1.tgz.1> with path and filename of your backup file and </mnt> with the mountpoint of the partition to resotre to (which should have a correct filesystem on it and for this example (restoring the whole partition not only several files) be empty).

dd

To restore, use the following commands:
gzip -dc </cdrom/sda1.dd.gz> | dd of=</dev/sda1>
Replace </cdrom/sda1.dd.gz> with the path and filename of your backup file and </dev/sda1> with the partition, you want to restore. Be sure, that the partition is not mounted when you restore.

Splitted backups

If the backup is splitted on several CD-ROMs, use commands like the following examples:
cat /cdrom/sda1.tgz.1 /cdrom2/sda1.tgz.2 | tar -xz -C /mnt
cat /cdrom/sda1.dd.1 /cdrom2/sda1.dd.2 | gzip -dc | dd of=/dev/sda1
The disadvantage of restoring manually is, that you can't switch the CD during restoring. So in this case for a splitted backup up, you either need as much CD-ROM devices as splits or you have to copy all the backup-splits on a temporary harddisk partition and then to restore from there.

Other comands, which might be usefull:


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