Add more info on stage4/5

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** (2010-09-03) Sven Vermeulen <sven.vermeulen@siphos.be>
- Elaborate a bit more on stage4/5 backup/restores
** (2010-09-02) Sven Vermeulen <sven.vermeulen@siphos.be>
- Add chapter on logfile management
- Add chapter on backups

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<para>Specifically for Gentoo, some users have created enhancements on
top of the standard "stage3" installation used by Gentoo Linux. With
stage4 or stage5 installations, the extracted tarball is a lot larger
(it contains almost an entire system) and is accompanied with additional
script(s) that set up or recover the system. These scripts can, for
instance, restore your partition layout, reformat the partitions,
reinstall the bootloader, etc.</para>
<para>You can find references to this installation approach on the
Gentoo Forums. </para>
(it contains almost an entire system) and might be accompanied with
additional script(s) that set up or recover the system. These scripts
can, for instance, restore your partition layout, reformat the
partitions, reinstall the bootloader, etc.</para>
<para>Compared with the poor man's backup approach described above, this
can be seen as a "entire system poor man's backup", with:</para>
can be seen as a "entire system poor man's backup", with
optionally</para>
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<para>I personally prefer imaging software for such large recovery
scenarios.</para>
scenarios. However, such stage4/stage5 installations prove to be useful
when you migrate your system from one disk to another. Using imaging
tools might fail here, because they often require that the target hard
disk is equally sized, whereas you probably want to migrate to a larger
disk.</para>
<para>So, if you are interested in a stage4 or stage5 backup/restore,
you can take one from a running system or booted from a livecd. I
suggest using a livecd (or other live environment) as that will ensure
that the restore of the archive will give you a sane situation. If you
take such an archive while running inside the system itself, you will
also copy state files and other files that should not be there when a
system is being booted.</para>
<para>Mount your file systems (say at <filename>/mnt/gentoo</filename>)
except for the dynamically created ones (like proc, dev, sys, ...).
Then, run the following <command>tar</command> command to create the
archive:</para>
<programlisting>~# <command>tar -cvzpf /media/usb/backup/stage4.tar.gz --numeric-owner --strip-components=2 /mnt/gentoo</command></programlisting>
<para>The <option>--numeric-owner</option> will ensure that uid/gid
numbers are used rather than names, because the live environment can use
different name/id pairs than your own system. By using
<option>--strip-components=2</option>, all files are stored in the
archive without the leading "<filename>/mnt/gentoo</filename>".</para>
<para>If you need to put back the backup, you can recreate your
partitions (or create new ones), mount them somewhere (say
<filename>/mnt/gentoo</filename> again) and run:</para>
<programlisting>~# <command>tar xvzpf /media/usb/backup/stage4.tar.gz -C /mnt/gentoo</command></programlisting>
<para>Don't forget to reinstall the boot loader before you
reboot!</para>
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</chapter>