<div>You can try creating an ISO image of the disk?</div>
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<div>dd if=/dev/drive of=output.iso</div>
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<div>and then backing that up onto the tape.<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/28/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stuart Burns</b> <<a href="mailto:stuart.james.burns@gmail.com">stuart.james.burns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi All,<br><br>I'm hoping someone can help here. I've setup a new linux box (Opensuse 10.3) and it has an AIT 3 tape drive attached to it. Now backing up home is easy enough, but how does one create a backup of the actual system so in a disk failure it can be restored? <br>
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