On Thu, 12 May 2005, Alex at Avantel wrote: > Sure but I can think of lots of files that would prevent correct operation of > the new system - fstab, madm.conf, a lot of the boot files, .ssh key files, > etc. etc. None of which is much of a problem on bare metal restoration Sure but IMHO dealing these few issues is quicker than rebuilding a system from scratch and copying config across. Unless you use the same version of the same distro it is not going to be much fun. > Couldn't even re-boot after the first few attempts at that - have you done > this? Yep, countless times over the last 11 years. Cheers, Rob -- Robert Brockway B.Sc. Senior Technical Consultant, OpenTrend Solutions Ltd. Phone: +1-416-669-3073 Email: rbrockway [ at ] opentrend [ dot ] net http://www.opentrend.net OpenTrend Solutions: Reliable, secure solutions to real world problems. Contributing Member of Software in the Public Interest (http://www.spi-inc.org)