Thanks, that really helped me out! :D
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Thanks, that really helped me out! :D
OK, so if I exclude /media/* ,and when restoring just recreate a folder named 'cdrom0' and 'hdb1', everything should work like before ? I thought these folders were dynamic links to other files ?
Yes, but, the cdrom and external hd are automatically mounted when I boot up the pc, and only contain data which isn't necessary to run the system. I'm worried that, if I exclude the /media folder,...
This tutorial says it is unwise to backup the other mounted drives as well.
By default, I have a cdrom and another hard drive mounted in the folder 'media'.
Could I just exclude the media-folder,...
I'm unable to boot up the kernel anymore, but I still have a tar backup made by this guide.
Now, when I try to extract the content of this tarball with the live-cd, it refuses to write to the disk...