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- From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
- Subject: Re: Boot filesystem backup/restore
- Organization: Open Age, Inc.
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:45:21 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.234521.9134@openage.openage.com>
- References: <1992Dec16.192445.21570@oneb.almanac.bc.ca>
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- kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay) writes:
-
- >System: SCO XENIX 3.2.3 GT
-
- >I have been offered the brief loan of a SCSI tape drive (150 meg) so I can
- >back up my root filesystem, which will let me re-install the OS and
- >hopefully resolve some SCSI disk problems in the process.
-
- >I have no experience with this, but understand that using tar for the backup
- >won't archive the device drivers. What I want to do is this: back up the
- >_entire_ root filesystem, re-install the OS to the point where I can restore
- >from tape, restore everything from tape, over-writing existing files, and
- >reboot.
-
- >Is that possible? If so, do I use cpio for the job? What switches should I
- >use?
-
- >Any suggestions welcomed :-)
-
- 1) unmount any extra file systems.
- 2) cd /
- 3) find . -print -depth | cpio -ovc -C20480 -K149000 -O/dev/rct0
-
- If you have any extra file system I would back them up too. Remember that you
- are getting into a position to easily blow your whole disk away. Making one or
- two EXTRA backups is not a waste of time.
-
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