Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
It would appear that on May 11, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook did say:
Thanks again Luciano, I much appreciate the informative explanation.
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Thanks
One more tar question for the expert users...
Tar is becoming part of my primary back up strategy for all my linux partitions. Tar, split & xcdroast works for me! But I'd like to make it a complete strategy and even use it to back up my windows stuff...
I can't think of a reason why it can't. I could do some empirical testing I suppose. But if I restore my win98 from a tarfile and it doesn't work, Id regret it.
Has anybody successfully backed up AND restored a windows filesystem with tar. ( I'm talking the whole "C:" drive ) If I ever screw up and let it gets infested with something, I'd like to know that I could boot linux from a lilo floppy, and: # shred /dev/hda1 # mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/hda1 # mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mountpoint # cd /mountpoint # tar -xzf tarfile.tgz . # lilo -b /dev/hda
Reboot and select the win98 boot item. And actually have win98 running? But I suppose I might have to replace the mkdosfs line with booting from a win98 rescue floppy that has the win/dos version of fdisk and format on it(with LBA support...) Then reboot into linux and pick up with the mount command...
But I would definitely like to use my trustwothy linux to archive my
win89 file system.
If this possible???
Have you tried mondoarchive? http://www.mondorescue.org
I use it and have it set to run from a cron job at night once a week. A full backup monthly, differential backups weekly (this is my home system).
It creates bootable iso images for the backup on hard drive and then I use cdrecord to put them onto cd for storage. (It can backup directly to the cdrom if you wish, or to tape or an nfs mounted drive.)
A full backup of a system with about 38gb of data takes 18 700mb CDs (about 2.1gb of data on each 700mb cd) It also can be used to do a backup of other filesystems that are mounted such as your Win98.
This would be much better than a tar archive because of the ability to boot and do a full bare bones recovery. Also with the major compression it takes less space, And with less manual work than the tar - split - cdrecord routine.
just my $0.02 :-)
Jeff
