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Best way to backup root?
I am wondering what is the best or a good way to backup the root partition to another readynas backup volume, so that in the event of volume loss, I can restore my working root partition after having done all my configuration and installed various things with front view or apt, etc.. Is this even possible to backup and restore the root partition, or perhaps some parts of it?
I got the build-essential installed now that netgear has their repo up, but in the future who knows if it will be up, so having my root partition restorable in some way would be helpful..if its even possible.
At this point my readynas is pretty simple configuration compared to years past, so..its not that bad to just reinstall and reconfigure in the case I were to lose boot volume for some reason. But the one thing that would be difficult or maybe impossible to restore might be build-essential. I suppose there might be a way to mirror the repo? Well anyway if I can just backup my boot volume including root partition, that would be preferable I think.
Not using RAID5 by the way, my boot partition right now is actually on a single non-raid SSD that is not being used for any other data storage...but I plan to switchover to having two RAID1 arrays, one for boot+storage, and another separate RAID1 for pure storage.
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I suppose there might be a way to mirror the repo?
apt-mirror will do it. See
This mirror.list will mirror all 6.10.x repos, plus some debian ones.
deb-amd64 https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.0 updates apps main deb-amd64 https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.1 updates apps main deb-amd64 https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.2 updates apps main deb-amd64 https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.3 updates apps main deb-amd64 https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.4 updates apps main deb-amd64 https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.5 updates apps main deb-amd64 https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.6 updates apps main deb-amd64 https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.7 updates apps main deb-amd64 https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.8 updates apps main deb-amd64 https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.9 updates apps main deb-amd64 https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.10 updates apps main deb-amd64 http://archive.kernel.org/debian-archive/debian jessie main contrib non-free deb-amd64 http://archive.kernel.org/debian-archive/debian jessie-backports main contrib non-free deb-amd64 http://archive.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free deb-amd64 http://archive.debian.org/debian-security jessie/updates main contrib non-free deb-armel https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.0 updates apps main deb-armel https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.1 updates apps main deb-armel https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.2 updates apps main deb-armel https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.3 updates apps main deb-armel https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.4 updates apps main deb-armel https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.5 updates apps main deb-armel https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.6 updates apps main deb-armel https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.7 updates apps main deb-armel https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.8 updates apps main deb-armel https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.9 updates apps main deb-armel https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.10 updates apps main deb-armel http://archive.kernel.org/debian-archive/debian jessie main contrib non-free deb-armel http://archive.kernel.org/debian-archive/debian jessie-backports main contrib non-free deb-armel http://archive.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free deb-armel http://archive.debian.org/debian-security jessie/updates main contrib non-free deb-armhf https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.0 updates apps main deb-armhf https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.1 updates apps main deb-armhf https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.2 updates apps main deb-armhf https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.3 updates apps main deb-armhf https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.4 updates apps main deb-armhf https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.5 updates apps main deb-armhf https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.6 updates apps main deb-armhf https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.7 updates apps main deb-armhf https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.8 updates apps main deb-armhf https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.9 updates apps main deb-armhf https://apt.readynas.com/packages/readynasos 6.10.10 updates apps main deb-armhf http://archive.kernel.org/debian-archive/debian jessie main contrib non-free deb-armhf http://archive.kernel.org/debian-archive/debian jessie-backports main contrib non-free deb-armhf http://archive.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free deb-armhf http://archive.debian.org/debian-security jessie/updates main contrib non-freeI am wondering what is the best or a good way to backup the root partition to another readynas backup volume,
You can remount it as /mnt and then copy /mnt to a folder on the data volume. It is important to remount it (and copy the new mount point), since the data volume is mounted to //.
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