> How do you prepare for a catastrophe? How is the best way to backup your
> linux system? Can you preserve partitions? Can you DriveCopy or some other
> utility?
Do a 'man dump'
or you could so what I do and just pack everything up in .tar.gz files and
throw 'em on some sort of medium (I use a zip drive).
> I have a tape drive inside a Win95 machine, what is the exact command to
> qzip and tar and entire drive for such a catastrophe?
tar zcvf /usr.tar /usr
should tar and gzip your entire /usr directory into /usr.tar
> One more question: What would cause named to stop? And then not restart
Sorry, don't know about that one.
Good Luck
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