Re: Disaster recovery plan?

[Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya stan

on the rescue disk ... replace its kernel with your kernel 
on the boot disk .... mknod c /dev/st0 [ 9 0 ]
and you'd need to rebuld the rescue and root disks

or   boot as is...
	mknod c /dev/st0 
	insmod scsixxx for your tape drive
	mt rewind /dev/st0  -- if it makes noises... you're in luck
	tar tvf /dev/st0

	how you restore from tape would depend on if the disk
	is partition or not and probably should reformat it
	before restoring..

-- its easier/simpler/faster/cheaper to just do raid1 mirroring
   or backup and restore from a remote disk on a different server

c ya
alvin


On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Stan Brown wrote:

> I'm trying to come up with a disaster recovery plan for a Debian potato
> system we are deploying at work.
> 
> I would like to hear other peoples sugestiosn on what they are doing about
> this.
> 
> I'm thinking of making a backup using a SCSI DLT tape drive that will be
> atached to this sytem, and booting from the rescue/root diskset, but I'm
> finding some problems with this. For example, even though the system booted
> from this diskset seems to recognize the drive, it does not seem to create
> a /dev/st0 device (the tape drive).
> 
> What are other people doing about this? 
> 
> I'v read the O'riely book on this, but I have not come up with what I
> consider a good plan for this.
>