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[ale] Low-end tapedrives for SOHO environment
- Subject: [ale] Low-end tapedrives for SOHO environment
- From: ups at tree.com (Stephan Uphoff)
- Date: Fri Mar 19 18:34:50 2004
- In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 19 Mar 2004 17:18:05 EST." <[email protected]>
> Say you have a full backup, the machine crashes, you replace the drive.
> How do you easily get the bootable system back from the full backup?
- Boot with a rescue cdrom
- create partitions
- make file system on partitions
- restore each partition from tape
- re-initialize grub
- reboot
There are also a few bare-metal backup/restore utilities
... but tar was always good enough for me.
Stephan