On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Distribution Lists wrote: > > > Does anyone know how to a make bootable full system backup? Preferably > > on tape. Instead of having to reinstall a new system from installation > > CDs then restore with tar or cpio. > > > > Regards > > > There are a couple of backup programs/scripts on Freshmeat that will do > that. Basicly, you end up with a boot floppy or bootable CD, and then > backup. As far as I know, you can not boot directly from a tape drive > on a PC compatable. (You can on a Sparc...)
You actually can boot from a tape drive. The tape drive has to appear as though it's a CDROM drive through BIOS in the inital boot procedure. After that a tape software can run to perform the restore. I think only HP offers these kind of tapes. One-Button Disaster Recovery (OBDR) http://www.openview.hp.com/products/omniback/Documents/Product_HTML-154.asp MicroLite supports HP's OBDR feature for creating bootable tapes for Linux: http://www.microlite.com/ Werner -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
