I am looking at a way of doing a SIMPLE bare metal recovery plan for my development linux box.
What I am interested in hearing is people's comments on using 'tar' or 'dump' as the backup program and why I would use one over the other. (ie restrictions, advantages etc). My main requirement is that I be able to restore the tape on a totally new machine should my old machine go up in smoke. This would mean that such things as 'dd' cannot be used since the new hard drive probably won't be the same size as the old one. I am currently using "tar" to backup to a QIC tape. I also have a bootable crash-recovery CDROM that I can use to boot a new machine and then restore the tape from. Comments ? Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
