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

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ajr3

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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?
 
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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.
 
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Hi,

There is one Bare Metal Restore at Veritas.

Fioon
 
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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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