[H-GEN] Linux Backup

[Tony Melia (DMS)]

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I am (again) looking at a backup/recovery plan for a server I have running.
There seems to be lots of methods and programs available, from dump to tar,
and commercial arcserve type programs.  I am wondering what methods people
are using that work, and can restore a complete system, with permissions
e.t.c.  I am hoping to do something like a dump to a DDS drive, and,
assuming a HD dies, be able to boot off a floppy, and do a dump from DDS
back to disk to recover.  Has anybody had experience they can share on full
recovery, not just tarring a few important files.  Also, how does it cope
with open files??

Specifically RH8 (which doesn't work with the Arcserve 2000 agent!).

Regards,
Tony

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