On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 09:49:23AM +0200, Robert J. Alexander wrote:
> What would be the smartest approach to have a full bootable backup of a
> Debian customized system ?
>
> As backup media I could use : 4mm SCSI tape, SCSI CD-R, vfat parition on
> other disk, the network.
>
> On AIX there a mksysb command which produces a bootable tape backup of
> the whole system (the rootvg volume group to be picky).
> Once I have a system which is up and running, correctly configured, I
> ususally make a mksysb and in case of a disk failure I only need to
> place the mksysb in the tape drive, boot from it and voila my system is
> fully restored and alive again.
Well...AFIAK you can't really tape boot on most machines with Linux.
Here is how I backup.
I have a tape drive st0 and nst0
I just
tar clvf /dev/st0 /
(NB: everything is on 1 partition...any mount point on its own partition
must be listed explicitly with the l option...ie if /usr is on /dev/hda2
then tar clvf /dev/st0 / /usr )
then to restore...I get "Tom's Unix on fa Floppy"
I have pasted in the lsm for it below after my signature
anyway...I give it a command line option at the lilo prompt
so it detects my SCSI card..then
{do what I need to gat my system read and mount what WILL BE
/ on next reboot on /mnt)
cd /mnt
cpio -i < /dev/st0
cd etc
lilo -C lilo.conf
cd /
umount /mnt
restart
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--tomsrtbt lsm--
Title: tomsrtbt
Version: 1.4.68
Entered-date: 11JUN98
Description: "The most Linux on one floppy." (distribution or panic disk).
1722MB boot/root rescue disk with a lot of hardware and tools.
Supports ide, scsi, tape, network adaptors, PCMCIA, much more.
About 100 utility programs and tools for fixing and restoring.
See 'ReadMe-Features' for the list of what's included. Not a
script, just the diskette image packed up chock full of stuff.
Also good as learn-unix-on-a-floppy as it has mostly what you
expect- vi, emacs, awk, sed, sh, manpages- loaded on ramdisks.
Keywords: rescue, recovery, emergency, floppy, panic, bootdisk, tomsrtbt
Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Oehser)
Maintained-by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Oehser)
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/recovery
1722 kB tomsrtbt-1.4.68.tar.gz
1 kB tomsrtbt-1.4.68.lsm
Alternate-site: http://www.toms.net/~toehser/rb/
1722 kB tomsrtbt-current.tar.gz
Copying-policy: GPL
