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From: bw@unisoft.UUCP (Barbara Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: RE: Aux backup
Message-ID: <1976@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 89 02:02:02 GMT
References: <4137@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
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From article <4137@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, by barnhill@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu:
> Has anyone developed a backup strategy for this critter?  Our Aux 1.0 came
> supplied on the drive, and we'd like to back it (or 1.1 if and when it...) such
> that we have a bootable backup...but...if you can't get to unix because it is
> crashed catastrophically, how in the heck are you goinng to be able to use cpio
> or tars to get the bloody thing back?

if you have eschatology partitions, you could use autorecovery
(a.k.a. eschatology) to get back a minimal working system.  or,
in the standalone shell, you could copy the files you want from
eschatology partitions to your root partition.

						-bw-