Full system restoration on another computer - Tutorial
I have been playing with this app about 2 days trying to figure out how to restore a snapshot to another computer, and because despite the fact it's a great app it lacks a good documentation, I will post here what it worked for me and I invite others to make their own suggestions and post their successful configurations.
To make a restoration on another computer you must fallow the next steps:
Step 1. Make a snapshot of the current computer (say computer A) with Back in Time (root) version.
When the snapshot is ready Back in time will save the snapshot under a folder structure which will look like this:
Step 2. Install Ubuntu on the computer were you want to restore the snapshot (computer B).
Step 3. Install Back in time on this new computer (Computer B).
Step 4. Lunch Back in time (root) version on computer B.
Step 5. In the Back in time settings window make this selections:
Step 6. Now under the snapshots window you can select the snapshot made on computer A and in the right window you can select which folder to restore.
Further I will post some details about the computers on which I made a successful restoration following the steps above:
1.
TARGET COMPUTER : VirtualBox
OS: : Ubuntu 14.04.1
RESTORED FOLDERS : /bin /home /lib /lib64 /opt /root /sbin /usr /var
RESULT: The system on the computer was identical with the one from the computer A. All the applications worked perfectly even the one installed in Wine.
PROBLEMS: At the first attempt after restoring the /usr/lib folder the computer didn't restarted correctly and I wasn't able to make it work. I don't know why this happened because the second time everything was OK.
2.
TARGET COMPUTER : Toshiba Satellite laptop
OS: : Ubuntu 14.04.1
RESTORED FOLDERS : /bin /home /lib /lib64 /opt /root /sbin /usr /var
RESULT: The system on the computer was identical with the one from the computer A. All the applications worked perfectly even the one installed in Wine.
PROBLEMS: No problems.
PS: I'm aware that this isn't the right place for this tutorial but I invite others which made successful restorations on different machines to post their configurations and encountered problems.
Also maybe somebody else will find a better place for this tutorial (or maybe for a better one with pictures etc.) on the official site or somewhere on a blog.
PS to PS: Please excuse my poor English :)
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