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From: Philip Hands <phil(at)hands.com>
Date: Thu Jan 31 2008 - 11:57:52 EST

Hi Folks,

I've just put the first cut of a udeb that's aimed at allowing people to use d-i to restore from a backup.

It currently only deals with a gzipped tarball available via wget, and it relies on the nasty hack of downloading a statically linked GNU tar for doing the untarring (as busybox's tar didn't turn out to be up to the job)

Read more here: http://hands.com/d-i/restore/

There are _many_ limitations to this, but I have just successfully used it to restore a backup to a clone server, and then edit the hostname & IP address to suit the new machine, and I can certainly see that the small amount of by-hand tweaking I had to do should be automatable, which would make this a much more comfortable proceedure (it's already much easier as a result of having this package)

Oh, and the templates seem to be largely broken, since they do get inserted (using the trick of editing the disk-detect.postinst in the early_script) but for some reason all the notes and text templates get blanked.

Anyway, release early & often, eh? :-)

Cheers, Phil.

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