hi ya stan
on the rescue disk ... replace its kernel with your kernel
on the boot disk .... mknod c /dev/st0 [ 9 0 ]
and you'd need to rebuld the rescue and root disks
or boot as is...
mknod c /dev/st0
insmod scsixxx for your tape drive
mt rewind /dev/st0 -- if it makes noises... you're in luck
tar tvf /dev/st0
how you restore from tape would depend on if the disk
is partition or not and probably should reformat it
before restoring..
-- its easier/simpler/faster/cheaper to just do raid1 mirroring
or backup and restore from a remote disk on a different server
c ya
alvin
On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Stan Brown wrote:
> I'm trying to come up with a disaster recovery plan for a Debian potato
> system we are deploying at work.
>
> I would like to hear other peoples sugestiosn on what they are doing about
> this.
>
> I'm thinking of making a backup using a SCSI DLT tape drive that will be
> atached to this sytem, and booting from the rescue/root diskset, but I'm
> finding some problems with this. For example, even though the system booted
> from this diskset seems to recognize the drive, it does not seem to create
> a /dev/st0 device (the tape drive).
>
> What are other people doing about this?
>
> I'v read the O'riely book on this, but I have not come up with what I
> consider a good plan for this.
>
