4 Jan
2007
4 Jan
'07
2 a.m.
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 17:36, Richard wrote:
OK, suppose you have a workstation and it has stuff
installed on its
drives. You don't have the original distribution media for the OS and
any installed applications and you don't have a spare system with the
same stuff installed.
What's the best way to make a backup of the entire hard drive so that
the essential software doesn't get lost?
The drives are SCSI.
Richard,
If you're talking about the Onyx - you can, as usual w/*NIX, use "tar" to
backup everything to tape or another storage media (attached or via NFS).
I suggest you create a duplicate system disk. If you use the same size disk,
you can use "dd", which will copy the boot blocks, etc. Make sure the
destination disk is "clean" (has no bad blocks).
With any SGI, it's good to have a bootable OS CD set, preferably V6.5. That
way you can recreate a system HD from "scratch", etc.
BTW: for lots of good technical info on all SGI products and drivers (which
are not included in the standard CD sets) see: http://vintagecomputers.info/
Cheers,
Lyle
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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"