notes/artix_backup.md
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# Backing Up On Artix
## Backing Up:
Plug in your backup drive:
```sh
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/media/usb-drive
```
```sh
doas rsync -aHAXS --exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found","/home/brian/Videos/*","/home/brian/Documents/books/*","/home/brian/Downloads/*","/home/brian/Music/*","/home/brian/Pictures/*","/home/brian/Games/*"} /* /mnt/media/usb-drive/backup
```
## Restoring:
Plug in the Artix base ISO (runit):
```
artixiso login: root
```
```sh
fdisk /dev/nvme0n1
```
#### boot
```
g (!! removes all disk partitions and creates a new GPT disklabel !!)
n (new partition)
t (select type of partition)
1 (mark the partition as an EFI system partition)
p (partition number)
Partition number (1 - 128, default 1): 1
First sector: (leave blank for default)
Last sector: +300M
n (new partition)
p (partition number) 2
default
default
w
```
```sh
mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/nvme0n1p1
```
```sh
mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p2
```
Now here is where we deviate from the installation:
```sh
mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt
```
```sh
mkdir /mnt/boot
```
```sh
mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot
```
And run the rsync backup script:
```sh
rsync -aHAXS --exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found"} /mnt/media/usb-drive/backup/* /mnt
```
Now, to ensure that GRUB + mkinitcpio work:
```sh
mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
mount --bind /run /mnt/run
```
Now chroot into the restored system:
```sh
artix-chroot /mnt
```
And regenerate grub:
```sh
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=GRUB
```
```sh
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
```
Make sure to regenerate the initramfs (important!):
```sh
mkinitcpio -P
```
And exit and reboot:
```sh
exit
```
```sh
umount -R /mnt
```
```sh
reboot
```
## If all went well...
If all went well, you'll boot into a standard arch install, but with no Videos,
Games, Music, books, Pictures, Downloads (too large, pick the ones you want from
your backup).