Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!unisoft!cander
From: cander@unisoft.UUCP (Charles Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: RE: Aux backup
Message-ID: <1980@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 89 18:55:57 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?  What we would like to do is be able to
> use the Tallgrass tape bup for the mac, as it is a nice inexpensive model that
> works nicely with the mac os (better than the apple ver., I think...) but no
> one at apple, tallgrass, etc., seems to have ever thought of backing up Aux
> before....surely someone has a plan or at least has thought about it!

A/UX comes with the BSD dump and restore programs.  You can use these
to back up to any media supported by A/UX (under 1.0 that's floppy and
hard disk. 1.1 supports the apple tape unit) or you can back up over
the network (assuming you're running an Ethernet or SLIP under 1.1).
As for bootable backups, it's true that there is no "mini-unix" (ala
BSD Vax or Sun) to boot and run restore, but there is escatology to
allow you to repair your root file system sufficiently to run restore.
Or, if you feel real lucky, you can just copy another machine's root
file system onto your disk, boot, and run restore (don't try that
unless you're real sure what your doing).

-- 

Charles.
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