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Any recommendations for "bare metal" backup & restore to/from tape

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ajr3

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Jan 11, 2002
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Anyone have a good recommendation for "bare metal" backup and restore that generates backup to tape, and can restore to a blank HDD by booting a CD or floppy, then restoring from tape?
 
Under linux you should be able to do something like

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/tape

and then reverse it, although I don't know how well it's going to go if you're moving to different sized hard drives and so on. I imagine dump would work as well.

If you wanted to get fancy you could pipe dd's output through gzip.
 
Hi,

There is one Bare Metal Restore at Veritas.

Fioon
 
If you are looking for a recommendation, look up a device called a DPU from UniTrends. It does exactly what you ask, for windows and *nix clients.
 
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