[arch-general] Stage 5 , Arch Wiki?

[Karol Blazewicz]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Jonathan Vasquez
<jvasquez1011 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> So for the past few days I've been playing with Gentoo and Funtoo.
> I've learned a lot. I learned about something called Stage 4 and 5,
> which you can basically do to your system in order to make a backup
> copy of it, and put it in a tarball. I don't see any Wiki pages for
> this, so I was thinking that maybe I can write one once I learn more
> about it. Anyone think this is necessary?

If you mean it as a way to backup your system, sure, why not.
There have been some ideas on the forum about creating a tar "install
package" that you just untar to have a working Arch, but I've never
seen a working example.

You can move your packages to the new computer in order to avoid
redownloading them. but backing them up is generally not necessary.