On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 23:34, Greg Wallace wrote:
On march 07, 2005 @ 1:34 AM, Darryl Gregorash wrote-- Greg Wallace wrote: SuSE (Linux in general? -- no experience with other releases) definitely needs to get caught up on this. I assume this would be an extension of YAST -- another option for the type of backup you want to create under the backup utility. What really had me confused in the beginning was that the YAST backup does create something called autoinstall.txt. The "autoinstall" term made me think this was something similar to the diskette information that comes out of a Windows ASR backup. However, I posted questions about this file on this site trying to figure out what the heck it is and never got a response. I even posted mail to the "autoinstall" site. Same thing -- no response. Of course, if you don't get complete package backups out of your YAST backup, then, of course, an autoinstall couldn't really work anyway, not in the sense of a full system recovery.
Greg W
Not being familure with ASR is this something included with MS server software? There are commercial products available that can do a recovery directly from backup tape/cd/dvd etc.. Check out BackupEdge and Lonetar. They are not too terribly expensive US$200-300. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please* "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge