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- From: yaosenko@acsu.buffalo.edu (Yaosen Ko)
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- Subject: Re: Restoring root partition dumps
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- Date: 8 Jan 93 23:07:36 GMT
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- In article <1359@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov> jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:
- >
- >I think to do this right, you'd need to make the "backup" partition as a
- >/usr-type file system (using 'dp')... When you need to boot up with it,
- >use A/UX Startup's 'dp' to change it to 'Root&Usr' file system and change
- >your "real" Root file system to something else (/usr-type)...
- >
-
- I use a dumb but straight forward method.
-
- Grab a 40MB (yes, 40MB) old HD, install a very small set of A/UX onto
- it. My setup is A/UX 3.0 with very small MacOS, Swap, AutoRecovery, and Root&Usr
- partitions all stuffed onto this 40MB. As you can guess, I trimmed a lot
- of stuff to accomplish it so that this installation can't do anything
- but run tape backup/restore program. Remaining free space on / partition
- is only a few hundred KB. :-)
-
- Every time I need to restore the working "/" partition, just boot
- A/UX from this HD and run tape restore program. Plain, simple, dirty &
- quick...
-