There are several ways. Tomsrtbt supports several SCSI adapters and IDE
tapes by default, some other SCSI adapters need a module added, floppy
tape drives need the ftape add-on. It includes the pax, tar, cpio, and dd
programs which can be used for backup and restore at the filesystem and
raw device levels. It has gzip and bzip2 for compression of archives.
The dump and restore programs are available in the add-ons directory if
you prefer that strategy. Tomsrtbt includes fdisk and mke2fs to re-create
your disk partitions before doing a filesystem level restore. The way _I_
do it is to first do "fdisk -l > save-fdisk" to save the disk geometries
to a file, then I use cpio to backup to an Exabyte scsi tape drive with an
Adaptec 2940 which uses the included aic7xxx driver. If I need to restore
from scratch, I look at the saved save-fdisk file to get the partition
structure, recreate that with fdisk and mke2fs, then do the restore with
cpio. You need to analyze your requirements, decide if you want something
like incremental backups based on datestamps, etc. -Tom
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Mark B Withers wrote:
> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 19:54:48 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Mark B Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: toms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [tomsrtbt] restoring from tape backup
>
> Is there a way to restore Linux from a tape backup in case the worst
> should ever happen using tomsrtbt?
>
> Mark
>
