Wow!
Thanks a lot! This really helps me to plan for the unforseen.
Mark
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Tom Oehser wrote:
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| 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:
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| > 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
| >
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