CRU you can get it at http://www.estinc.com/cru2/CRU2.html. If you drive
support one button disaster recovery, CRU is create a tape to bring you
system back up. You can also create a boot and a root disk and restore off
of a tape!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Norvell Spearman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 3:30 AM
Subject: [expert] Painless disaster recovery. . .
> I posted this maybe a week or two and got no responses; I'm trying again
> now in case someone new on the list has some insights. . .
>
> I'm running Linux Mandrake 7.1 and have an HP 8GB internal IDE tape
> drive. I use the ide-scsi module for tape access (/dev/hdd <->
> /dev/st0), which seems to work great.
>
> My questions:
>
> 1) How do I make devices on a bootfloppy so ide-scsi will work from said
> bootfloppy? Using DrakFloppy, I created a disk and told it to pre-load
> ide-scsi, but the only devices on the floppy are /dev/hdb6 and /dev/fd0.
>
> 2) I'm shooting for a ``painless'' recovery plan, so what is the best
> way to backup data (using only GNU tools that come with a common Linux
> distribution)? I'm thinking something like
> tar cvzpf /dev/st0 --exclude /proc /
> after unmounting the cdrom, floppy, and windoze
> partition.
>
> 3) Which programs do I need on the boot floppy? fdisk, mke2fs, mount,
> umount, tar, gzip sound like good choices, but what else do I need?
>
> 4) Are these the steps to recovery I need to follow, or have I left out
> something?
> a) boot to floppy
> b) create partitions with fdisk
> c) recreate file systems with mke2fs
> d) mount new file systems (e.g., /mnt/, /mnt/home, /mnt/tmp, etc.)
> e) restore data from tape: cd /mnt; tar xzvpf /dev/st0
>
> 5) lilo and grub: If I want to use lilo, all I have to do next is run
> `lilo /mnt/etc/lilo.conf' right? If I'm using grub, though, how do I
> update the mbr?
>
> Thanks for any help with these questions. If all this is in a HOWTO
> which I missed, I apologize for the superfluous posting. . .
>
> ---Norvell Spearman
> ---------------------------
> ``Trouble is my business.''
> ---Philip Marlowe
>
