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.
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