Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 09:49:23AM +0200, Robert J. Alexander wrote:
> > What would be the smartest approach to have a full bootable backup of a
> > Debian customized system ?
> >
> > As backup media I could use : 4mm SCSI tape, SCSI CD-R, vfat parition on
> > other disk, the network.
> >
> > On AIX there a mksysb command which produces a bootable tape backup of
> > the whole system (the rootvg volume group to be picky).
> > Once I have a system which is up and running, correctly configured, I
> > ususally make a mksysb and in case of a disk failure I only need to
> > place the mksysb in the tape drive, boot from it and voila my system is
> > fully restored and alive again.
>
> Well...AFIAK you can't really tape boot on most machines with Linux.
> Here is how I backup.
> I have a tape drive st0 and nst0
> I just
> tar clvf /dev/st0 /
> (NB: everything is on 1 partition...any mount point on its own partition
> must be listed explicitly with the l option...ie if /usr is on /dev/hda2
> then tar clvf /dev/st0 / /usr )
>
> then to restore...I get "Tom's Unix on fa Floppy"
> I have pasted in the lsm for it below after my signature
>
> anyway...I give it a command line option at the lilo prompt
> so it detects my SCSI card..then
> {do what I need to gat my system read and mount what WILL BE
> / on next reboot on /mnt)
> cd /mnt
> cpio -i < /dev/st0
> cd etc
> lilo -C lilo.conf
> cd /
> umount /mnt
> restart
>
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> --tomsrtbt lsm--
> Title: tomsrtbt
> Version: 1.4.68
> Entered-date: 11JUN98
> Description: "The most Linux on one floppy." (distribution or panic disk).
> 1722MB boot/root rescue disk with a lot of hardware and tools.
> Supports ide, scsi, tape, network adaptors, PCMCIA, much more.
> About 100 utility programs and tools for fixing and restoring.
> See 'ReadMe-Features' for the list of what's included. Not a
> script, just the diskette image packed up chock full of stuff.
> Also good as learn-unix-on-a-floppy as it has mostly what you
> expect- vi, emacs, awk, sed, sh, manpages- loaded on ramdisks.
> Keywords: rescue, recovery, emergency, floppy, panic, bootdisk, tomsrtbt
> Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Oehser)
> Maintained-by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Oehser)
> Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/recovery
> 1722 kB tomsrtbt-1.4.68.tar.gz
> 1 kB tomsrtbt-1.4.68.lsm
> Alternate-site: http://www.toms.net/~toehser/rb/
> 1722 kB tomsrtbt-current.tar.gz
> Copying-policy: GPL
>
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Sounds great ... will give it a try. Thank you.
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Robert J. Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AIX Certified System Administrator - Debian Linux addict - Win.\* victim
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