On Tue, 16 May 2000, "Christopher M. Downs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i have a 4 gig hp surestore tape 6000 in my linux box right now.
> i need to copy the entire drive as a whole if i can.so if al hell
> breaks loose i can restore the enitire drive, is there a way to do
> this correctly? like using dump or somnething?
dump may do it.
I always do something like:
tar -cvf /dev/st0 /
I'm pretty paranoid, so then I nearly always run a diff:
tar -df /dev/st0
If I'm really paranoid I extract a table:
tar -tvf /dev/st0
and see if it matches what I believe I backed up (e.g. output of find(1)).
If all hell breaks loose for you, you'd likely need to have a rescue
floppy that would allow running fdisk, mkfs.ext, and tar -xvf /dev/st0
(presumably you'd run the tar from the /mnt dir where you mounted the
partition to be restored).
HTH
Karl Runge
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