On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 02:11:09AM -0800, John Miskinis wrote: > Hi, > > I'm hoping to find a set of tools that will allow a linux system > to be backed up, and restored, using ZIP disks. I would really > appreciate any advise on this subject, from anyone who has > successfully restored a system from a multi-volume set.
I've heard taper can work with zipdisks. However, if you have enough disk space you can just use tar and split to make a splitted (and gzip'd) tarfile in /tmp, and then just copy the splits to your zipdisk. This requires some extra disk space but makes life rather easy so you could do cd /tmp tar -cvf- /home | split --bytes=90m - home.tar. This will tar /home and pipe the result to split which creates files of 90 MB each. Now you will have in /tmp/ a set of files named home.tar.aa, home.tar.ab, etc. and you copy each of these files to a seperate zipdisk To restore the system you first restore the tarfile by cat /zip/home.tar.aX >> /tmp/home.tar for each zipdisk (be careful to use the right order or you'll be in serious trouble) Then you can simply do cd / tar xf /tmp/home.tar to restore your homedir Have fun, Wouter
