"Kinda like having insurance on your car prevents accidents."

Not really -- having insurance means you'll still have accidents cause
the fine-print says that the rates go up exponentially with each
claim.

Cheers.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold M Hallikainen" <haroldhallikainen@JUNO.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: [OT]: Hard Drive Crash Recovery


>         I always thought that having a backup kept your hard drive from
> crashing...  Kinda like having insurance on your car prevents accidents.
> The one time I didn't get the CDW on a rental car, a bus ran into me (or,
> actually, the rearview mirror got ripped off the car by a bus, but the
> car rental company wanted $3,000 anyway...). So, I do nightly backups on
> EVERYTHING!
>         Now for a question... With Windoze machines, I've been able to
take a
> backup tape and restore it to a new harddrive and pick up where I left
> off. This doesn't seem to work with Linux, since it seems to save a lot
> of the machine's state at various locations on the hard drive. I tried
> doing a reinstall of RH7.1, then copying back everything (that had been
> tarred on tape). It really messed the machine up. I ended up having to
> reinstall RH again, copying various config files I could identify,
> reinstalling several aps (perl libraries, PHP4, etc.). I was able to just
> copy the /home user files back. Copying back the password and shadow
> password file seems to have restored user accounts.
>         BUT, it seems that there SHOULD be a way to just get the machine
back to
> where it was, directly from tape. No reinstalls or anything. Can any
> linux experts tell me how? It it's easy to do a restore, I'm sure I'll
> never get another crash...
>
>
> Harold
>
>
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