Re: Backing up and restoring system HELP - not a SCO user

From: Tom Podnar (tom_at_microlite.com)
Date: 10/24/03 

Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 09:37:02 -0400

Bill Vermillion wrote:

>
> >I have thought I can backup to a tape drive remotely on another Unix
> >server we have here, but then the problem comes in - how to restore
> >from that tape drive when all I have is a SCO root floppy and boot
> >floppy I was able to create. Will they work to reconnect the
> >server-being-rebuilt to the remote device to do a complete system
> >restore? If not, I suppose I could try to reinstall 5.0.5 from their
> >media, but I am not sure they even know where that is.
>
> The SuperTar programs - BackupEdge or LoneTar will do what you
> want.
>
> I've used one of them to backup a machine that was a headless
> server with no floppies and no tape drives.
>
> The recovery disks the SuperTars make should let you build from the
> ground up on a new machine - but I've never tried one where the
> entire backup as made to a remote. I can't see why it wont work.
>
> Tom at MicroLite or Jeff at Cactus could probably comment on that.

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