suggestion for disastery recovery (was Re: more on hardware clock)

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Thanks, Adam,

It might be slow pulling a single file out of its context, but it
cannot be slower than the way I did it!

However -- was there something about clouds and silver linings? I
had to patch speakup into a clean kernel source tree and begin
with "make config" from scratch, and guess what?

alsa RC3 just compiled without error.

Chuck

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Adam Myrow wrote:

> For those situations where you've installed something that messed your
> whole system up, or if you scramble your partition table and have to start
> over, I have a little utility to suggest.  http://dump.sourceforge.net
> contains Ext2 dump and restore.  This is a simple backup utility based on
> the dump and restore that first appeared in BSD and later got renamed to
> ufsdump and ufsrestore in Solaris.  Basically, it makes backup and
> restoration fairly simple.  It was originally designed for tapes, but can
> write to files just as easily.  It's a bit tricky to install, because it
> wants to set the owner of the man pages to "man" which seldom exists.
> Look at the configure options carefully.  What I did is to build the
> package in a statically linked form.  Then, I put a copy of this
> statically linked restore on a floppy.  That way, I could get to it from a
> rescue disk and it would work no matter what libraries are on the rescue
> disk.  It lets you do a full restore or an interactive restore where you
> can type "ls" and "cd" just like in the shell to navigate the backup and
> select files.  One word of warning, it is slow about restoring single
> files from the middle of a backup since it's designed for tapes, but there
> are options to help with this.  However, a full or incremental backup and
> restore are very quick.  It can take a 2GB partition and can back it up in
> about 10 minutes uncompressed on my system.  It takes just under 2 hours
> with compression, but it packs that 2GB into about 790MB with the highest
> compression enabled.  Give it a look.  I wish Slackware included it by
> default, but it doesn't.
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