I use the Linuxcare Bootable Business Card, and it works great. It includes XFree86, ssh, networking,and a whole bunch of recovery utilities. It's not a floppy image, it's a CD-ROM .iso image, but if you're lucky enough to receive some from Linuxcare, you get the business-card sized CDs which are really neat.
As far as backup, I haven't been able to find any good Open Source backup suites. By suite, I mean something that will handle all of the things like tape changers, catalog creation, scheduling, and easy restoring. I've managed to get by by scripting my own, but it would be nice to have something with a decent interface. I've looked at BRU and Arkeia, but aside from the fact that they're not free, they still didn't provide enough usefulness to me to be worth it. Amanda looks like it may work well, but I dislike the notion of installing extra daemons on backup clients. I'm curious to know if anyone has come across anything interesting. -Tim On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 09:50, John Hebert wrote: > Good idea, Choppy. There are lots of utilities for > rescue and recovery for Linux. I use "Tom's Root/Boot" > disk, very small, very nice (http://www.toms.net/rb/). > You may also want to look at "System->Recovery Tools" > on freshmeat.net (http://freshmeat.net/browse/866/). > > I think a good future topic would be backup systems > and recovery using Linux. > > John Hebert > > --- Chopin Cusachs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've had better experiences with the little Ditto > > tape drive, though it can't > > go beyond 1 GB compressed. Parallel port is slow, > > but I don't mind a > > three hour backup if it goes while I am in bed > > sleeping. I can also use it > > for the other computers around here, especially if I > > can make it go under > > Linux. Also have a parallel port 100 Mb ZIP drive, > > as well as internal > > ones in two boxes here. I like the Norton-Iomega > > recovery system. > > > > One major problem with Windows systems is that a > > really useful backup > > must be able to run under DOS to restore a system > > when Windows can't > > boot. > > > > Hadn't thought of getting two, but may do that. > > > > Maybe sometime when we are short a program we could > > get someone to > > talk about rescue packages that boot from floppy, > > set up a RAM disk, > > and run tools from that. SPBLinux comes to mind as > > a good example, > > but the diskette produced by Windows98SE does so > > also. That's it, > > OS on diskette for troubleshooting and recovery -- > > for title. > > > > Choppy > > > > At 07:31 AM 10/31/01 -0600, you wrote: > > >Buy a cheap tape drive and that's what you'll get. > > Several years ago I > > >bought a Ditto 2Gig tape backup and that's was the > > biggest piece of junk > > >there ever was. I had to RMA it and get another > > and it was junk too. After > > >looking at mailing lists for that product I found > > out that a lot of other > > >people thought the same thing. I know I'll never > > buy another Ditto product > > >again. Guaranteed. Just my $0.02. Jeff > > > > > > ================================================ > > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > > your subscription information. > > ================================================ > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. > http://personals.yahoo.com > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
