At 10:04 AM 8/3/01, you wrote:
>I am looking for a backup system which I can backup onto tape or CD and
>restore by booting to floppy and it will restore the complete system ! any
>clues as to where I may find such a system ?
Well, there's always the option of using dd. It works great with tapes
since you can dd each volume directly. If your tapes are as large as your
volumes you can skip the archive spanning commands you'll probably need
with CDRs (unless you have <650MB volumes). For CD-R you'll also need
CD-record which is part of RH71.
And while I haven't used dd for that purpose but I've been told many times
it can take an entire drive snapshot, boot records, partitions and all with
the right parameters. Which means check the man pages.
Get a 1-disk Linux distro that supports your backup device (or just add the
driver/module) and then dd it from the archives to the machine. Add a few
cron statements and you've got an automagic backup system. dd's so
universal you really don't have to worry about losing the disk with the
restore software which is always my biggest nightmare.
-James McP
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