On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:43:18 +0800 Peter Sutter <sutterp@sopac.com.au> wrote:
Question 4: Is there still an easier way of doing backups/restores and / or cloning systems without spending too much money on fast tape drives or other equipment?
I have been using 2 perl scripts which do something similar. One, is "cddump", which dumps everything to cd's, but it does it with an iso image. This has the advantage of being able to retreive individual files from the backup. Furthermore, it dosn't require "dump and restore" ; which allows me to use it with reiserfs. And it does "incremental" backups. The second is "mkcdrec". This one works will back up your entire filesystem to cd, AND make a custom bootable 1rst cd. This is great because you can boot an "empty" system, and just copy everything right into it. It also works with reiserfs. Both of these can be found at http://freshmeat.net and enter the names in the searchbox. -- $|=1;while(1){print pack("h*",'75861647f302d4560275f6272797f3');sleep(1); for(1..16){for(8,32,8,7){print chr($_);}select(undef,undef,undef,.05);}}