would it not be easyer to use norton ghost? I use this for my Windows servers.
Boot from that Cd and create the ghost file, restore just the same way.

Patrick

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:21:43 +0100
Tom Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to create a simple disaster recovery solution for a server, but 
> before I started I wanted to check the theory.
> 
> The server uses a set of 2 SCSI disks (36GB each) mirrored using hardware 
> RAID-1.  There are two partitions, the system C and data D.
> 
> If I boot the system using a gentoo cd, load the correct scsi module can I 
> just
> 
> cat /dev/sda1 > /dev/backup
> 
> where /dev/backup is a third disc of 36GB?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Tom Wesley
> Please encrypt personal replies if possible.
> 


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