* Carlos E. R. [03-28-05 13:28]:

The Monday 2005-03-28 at 09:08 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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dar is a good choice, ...

This package doesn't require any other package to be installed (more specifically, dar-libs) as all the binaries are linked statically.

Interesting. Is it included in the SuSE rescue system?

I can't answer that. I do know that the author provides quick response to questions via the mail-list for dar, darr-support@lists.sourceforge.net I have seen messages reporting the *complete* reconstruction of failed SuSE systems (disk crash) achieved automagically via dar. Also I have seen the cloning of installs via dar onto identical systems. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery

On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:03:06 -0500, Ken Schneider wrote:

On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 16:58 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Carlos E. R. [03-28-05 13:28]: I can't answer that. I do know that the author provides quick response to questions via the mail-list for dar, darr-support@lists.sourceforge.net

I have seen messages reporting the *complete* reconstruction of failed SuSE systems (disk crash) achieved automagically via dar.

Also I have seen the cloning of installs via dar onto identical systems.

If you want disaster recovery type backup you will need to buy something like BackupEdge, it even supports backup to DVD's, $99 for home use.

-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998

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I use mondo rescue for disaster recovery, and works fine. I think there's an rpm in suse-projects apt repository, you can downloaded directly from an ftp mirror if you don't use apt. Doesn't matter wich one you choose, ALWAYS test the backup archives BEFORE doom's day, if you can, try a full restore (if you have an spare system for example) CI.-

The Monday 2005-03-28 at 16:58 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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Interesting. Is it included in the SuSE rescue system?

I can't answer that. I do know that the author provides quick response to questions via the mail-list for dar, darr-support@lists.sourceforge.net

Let me see, I'm curious. File /dvd/boot/rescue (16678787 bytes) is "gzip compressed data, was "rescue 47935", from Unix, max compression", so I uncompress it: it grows to 49085440 bytes. Now it is "Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data", so I can mount it: mount -t ext2 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop1 /cosas/cer/rescue /mnt There is no "dar" file. If any one is interested, I can post the list of programs.

I have seen messages reporting the *complete* reconstruction of failed SuSE systems (disk crash) achieved automagically via dar.

Hum, interesting. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson