Backup tool?

[Brian McKee]

On Monday 07 August 2006 13:47, Tom Smith wrote:
> Brian McKee wrote:
> >  In addition, your  data is stored in cpio archives,
> >so it's always recoverable, even if you can't get it to do a bare
> >metal restore for some reason.
> Why does using cpio archives make the data "always recoverable"?

Just because it's a common open source format that's easy to work with.
Some propriatary software packages (I *think* Ghost is an example) make
images you have to use their software with to restore.  I once had to 
restore an important machine at work, and it took me 48 hours to get a 
new license from Retrospect before I could get the machine back up and
running....  Mondo archives can be restored by hand in a shell if necessary.

Brian
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