Cecil Watson wrote:
>
> 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. . .
> >
Well.... yes, CRU does do that, but only with HP SureStore 12/24 and
above (AFAIK).
Best
Cokey
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