Lets say that you make a dump, How would you make a stand-alone floppy boot
disk to do a "bare-metal-recovery" restore.
I have checked out
http://www.backupcentral.com/linux-bare-metal-recovery.html and it has great
information regarding using tar and dd, not using dump/restore..is there a
reason? Is tar and dd a better (more reliability) than dump/restore?
Seems that the "tomsrtbt" that I found does not support "restore" and the
add-on for it does not like the same syntax, no help file or man for it
either.
When I create a boot floppy (mkbootdisk) and then put in a new hard drive
and try to boot, the boot floppy dies because it is looking for the old hard
drives partitions or something, gives me a "VFS Kernel Panic".
I suppose that I need to know now how to create a stand alone boot floppy
that will have the currrent version of the "restore" utility that I am
using. This way I can boot from the floppy, create the partions on the new
hard drive and then "restore" from the SCSI tape.
Also this "restore" does it have to have the same hard-drive geometry as the
original. It will work with a different model/size hard drive right? I dont
think that it cares what the drive is as long as it has the room to write
to. Correct?
Thanks again..
Regards,
Steven Hildreth
Information Technology Manager
Aprotex Corporation, http://www.aprotex.com
"Proven Property Protection Since 1952"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vidiot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: Multiple dump(s) on single /dev/st0 tape
> >So I this is how I make two different dumps then use the interactive mode
of
> >restore like this:
> >
> ># dump -0u -b 126 -d 141000 -s 11500 -L hda1 -f /dev/nst0 /dev/hda1
> ># dump -0u -b 126 -d 141000 -s 11500 -L hda5 -f /dev/st0 /dev/hda5
>
> No need for the mt rewind command, as the last dump can use the rewind
device.
>
> ># restore -i (this is the first dump)
> ># restore -is 2 (this is the second dump)
>
> No need for the mt command, as restore can be told, via -s, which one to
use.
>
> MB
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