New Primary HDD: A full Ubuntu backup & restoration experience (Draft)

Steps:

1. Use "SystemRescueCD"
2. "fsarchiver savefs"
3. "fsarchiver restfs"
4. mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
   mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/boot  #skip this if don't have a separate /boot partition
   grub2-install --root-directory=/mnt/ /dev/sda

Operation Stats:

• Original Disk Space used on the HDD to backup: 45 GB
• Size of the backup images using "fsarchiver" default settings: 30 GB
• Time taken to restore the whole HDD: around 45 min.
• Bootloader restoration (grub2): 1 min.

Impression: Very fast, very little disk space used, very happy :)