I have Slacko 5.7.0 and booted from cd and then did a full backup of my /dev/sda8 partition with compression to a flashdrive in /dev/sdc1
Now I have booted my other system with the same Slacko 5.7.0 and have a partition /dev/sda10 that I want to restore from my flashdrive to.
I don't have a history file, so the restore won't allow me to select anything.
How can I restore the file I saved /mnt/sdc1/Backup_2015-01-29_16.52.15.tgz?
Thanks
PS: I used xarchive to open it and extracted it to /mnt/sda10, but because I had backed it up while running live from cd in order to ensure no activity while backing it up,it results it my getting my data in a /mnt/sda8 and then the normal directory structure on /sda10.
So I installed mc,LOL.ThenI realized that it was in /mnt, so I renamed that to /mnt2,then went to /mnt/sda10/mnt2/sda8 and moved the contents to /mnt/sda10. I was going to try it in rox but couldn't see the weird aufs files,and mc could see them,so I used it instead.
Ok, how do I chroot to it so I can install grub2 etc? I can't seem to find an example of that for slacko 5.7.0, or is there a better way?
PSS: I never did find a way to get to where I could boot it. I don't think there was anything wrong with the way your program worked to back it up, but I just didn't seem to be able to get the restore sequence and syntax correct, and not really sure what was wrong, so had to give up. I was successful with pudd but it takes a huge amount of space to build temporary files on the target drive and as a result does a tremendous amount of reading and writing to that temporary drive, which in my case is a USB 1.0 flashdrive so it literally takes hours each time to save or restore anything. That led me here. I did find that if instead of using EXT4 for the drive, if I format it EXT3, I can use partimage or fsarchiver, both of which should do a great job of compressing. I successfully used partimage to save and restore a 3 gb partition. It took less than 10 min to save it on the faster machine and only 30 min to restore on the old one, compared to taking 1/2 the day. I still don't know how to chroot with slacko pup, though, so am using manjaro to manage the boot until I can get slacko booted from the hard drive to be able to install and update grub from there. I will put in a separate thread for that.
Anyway, no need to answer my problem here, now...
PSSS: partimage left the partition sort of messed up. It appears to be the right size, but later after you boot it, you find out that it is only there as big as what it was on the backup, and you can run out of space. I needed to go into gparted before using it and have it check the partition before it gets mounted and that fixes it to its full size. I was lucky it was a fairly easy fix and aborted the copy I was doing before it ran out of room. Maybe fsarchiver will do better...