Re: SCO 3.2 Back to the Future

From: Bob Stockler (bob_at_trebor.iglou.com)
Date: 02/25/05 

Date: 25 Feb 2005 11:51:10 -0500

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 03:05:59AM -0800, Diederik wrote:
|
| We are still running SCO 3.2 on an old Pentium I machine in a
| production environment. This production line needs to be moved and i
| would like to have some backups.
| 1. a full bootable backup of the OS including Everything (Or boot
| floppies to restore full backup)
| 2. A new copy of the installation Tape (Old tape and floppies are
| available)
|
| Does anyone have an idea of how to do this.
| Is it possible to use DD to copy a tape to harddisk and Put this copy
| on another Tape.
[snip]

Save yourself some touble and problems by getting a demo
version of BackupEDGE or LONE-TAR (downloadable from the
InterNet). The demos are time-limited fully functional,
and should give you enough time to do what you need.

Bob 

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