[Chester LUG] Creating a system backup onto tape.

[Michael Crilly]

You can try creating an ISO image of the disk?

dd if=/dev/drive of=output.iso

and then backing that up onto the tape.


On 5/28/08, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> 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?
>
> Anyone know?
>
> Stu
>
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