On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 10:43:21PM -0700, Greg Thomas wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Brad Shelton wrote:
Yeah. taper's great except for one small (not) problem... if your disk crashes and you replace it and need to restore your system, you'll pretty much need to reinstall Linux and taper before you can restore your tapes. Not good, in my estimation.
For a basic backup program I don't think that's a very big problem. You do a minimum install including taper and restore. If you're expecting single-click disaster recovery then you're talking about commercial products. And even some commercial products such as Arkeia can't do single-click disaster recovery (in fact you're completely hosed with Arkeia unless you've tarred up the Arkeia directory and saved it to different media).
I don't have that problem with tar. I had to use it once that way, not too awful long ago becuase I was converting to reiserfs. Boot rescue, format, run tar to restore. -- Brad Shelton On Line Exchange http://online-isp.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq