On Tue, 25 May 2010 11:42:34 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> wrote: >You're missing the point. The main selling point to management >is that Linux is free. If they have to buy new backup software >in order to accommodate Linux' backup requirements, that will >kill it on the spot. Whatever boot loader I use must not >require new backup software or impose special backup requirements.
From what I guess, your backup scheme is highly hardware dependent since lilo uses block lists in the MBR to find its later stages on disk. So your restored system will only boot if you restore to a disk with the exactly same geometry. I would change the restore process to manually reinstall the boot loader after the backup software finished with its restore job anyway, or you might be surprised with an unbootable restored system if you had to restore to different hardware. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1oinnw-0004kv...@swivel.zugschlus.de
