[Tfug] remastersys

[earljviolet at deserthowler.com]

On Tue, April 6, 2010 4:11 pm, John Karns wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 11:20 AM,  <earljviolet at deserthowler.com> wrote:
>> I have found remastersys to be great. Â I have been using it on Ubuntu
>> 9.10. Â It will do a full system back up to a DVD. Â I keep my isos and
>> video/music on a separate drive and umount this drive before doing the
>> remaster.
>
> Even when your filesystem size > 4 GB?
     My file system for Ubuntu 9.10, which I just backed up a few days
ago, is 10.5GB including / and /home.  It was backed up to 2.3 GB.
>
>> It is probably a good idea before a system upgrade too ... just in case
>> you need to get back to the original system. Â Ubuntu upgrades have been
>> known to break things.
>
> I've always done a tar backup before upgrading.  Does remastersys
> offer an advantage over doing it that way?
     With remastersys I get a live DVD which runs on several machines.  It
loads and works on any machine that runs live CD.  If my machine dies
completely, I can replicate it on any machine I can run the live DVD
on.
    It works for doing basic installs on several machines as I can do all
of the updates and customization and then move it almost any other
box.  It isn't bothered by things like different network or video
cards.
    I successfully tested it on Linux Mint and GOS too.

Earl

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