[ale] Low-end tapedrives for SOHO environment

[Geoffrey]

Stephan Uphoff wrote:
>> Say you have a full backup, the machine crashes, you replace the
>> drive. How do you easily get the bootable system back from the full
>> backup?
> 
> 
> - Boot with a rescue cdrom - create partitions - make file system on
> partitions - restore each partition from tape - re-initialize grub -
> reboot
> 
> There are also a few bare-metal backup/restore utilities ... but tar
> was always good enough for me.

I realize there are solutions, I just don't see that they're going to do 
you any better then a clean install, then reintroduce your backups.  I 
like the idea you're starting with a clean slate.  Then again, the full 
backup will give you all the previously installed software without 
having to retrace those steps.


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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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