[ale] Low-end tapedrives for SOHO environment

Stephan Uphoff ups at tree.com
Fri Mar 19 18:34:50 EST 2004


> 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



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