Subject: Re: restoring from tape
From: Richard Mckinney (mckinney@gci.net)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 14:09:28 AKDT
I've heard more than a few people recomend dump and restore.
Many of the little distro's (floppy/mini CD) contain these programs.
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Tibor <tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu>
Date: Thursday, May 16, 2002 1:41 pm
Subject: Re: restoring from tape
>
> On 16 May 2002, Mike Barsalou wrote:
>
> > What is the best way to make a tape backup, then do a restore of the
> > full system? I am thinking about a full restore in the case of
> a system
> > crash.
> >
> > The way I would normally do it is reinstall the operating
> system, then
> > do a full restore.
>
> The only time I've ever had to do a "bare metal" restore was using
> AMANDA(www.amanda.org). I did something similar to what you
> describe--the
> barest, skinniest install of whatever the box had previously, then
> installthe AMANDA client apps, and then do the restore.
>
> > Any simpler way to do it in Linux?
>
> I still haven't done it yet, but I would really like to create a
> bootablecd containing as many useful system utilities as possible,
> (in my case,
> including the AMANDA client apps). Ideally this would allow me to
> pop the
> cd in the drive, boot it up, and then just do the restore.
> Eliminatingthat first step of a bare OS install would be a nice
> time saver.
>
> Mike
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