Backup and Restore Command

jimmete · 06-03-2006, 06:33 AM

Is there a command line for Red Hat 9.0 to back up the hard drive to a DDS-4 data cartridge.

The following commands work for my unix based system.
#dd if=/dev/rdsk/hd00 of=/dev/rmt0 bs=512 for backup.
#dd if=/dev/rmt0 of=/dev/rdsk/hd00 bs=512k for restore.

I would like to back up and restore the complete system and applications ie like taking a norton ghost image if possible.Also the hard drive is a SCSI drive if that makes a difference.

Regards Jim.....

johnson_steve · 06-04-2006, 10:41 AM

you should be able to do the same thing on linux but the device names will be different. look in your /etc/fstab or dmesg to try and find the names used for your harddrive and the backup cartridge. dd is what I would use for this but I would backup to an image file on the cartridge (unless they are the exact same size.)

jimmete · 06-05-2006, 06:33 AM

Steve,

Thank you very much. I will try what you suggest.

Regards ,

Jim

jimmete · 06-07-2006, 03:22 AM

Steve,

Thanks again the device name for the scsi hard drive is sda and the hp tape back up is st0.

Regards,
Jim

johnson_steve · 06-07-2006, 08:02 PM

Your welcome glad I could help.