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<H2><A NAME="s1">1. Preface/Introduction</A></H2>
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<P>Earlier I posed the question on the Net, how does one back up a Linux
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machine to a Colorado Jumbo 250 tape drive on an MS-DOS machine.
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From the email I received,
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it seems that this is a frequently pondered problem.
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Now that I've figured it out, I'm posting the method.
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If anybody wants to massage this into a HOWTO document, let me know.
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I should thank Jim Nance
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<A HREF="mailto:jlnance@isscad.com">jlnance@isscad.com</A>)
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for pointing out that an MS-DOS machine need not always be an MS-DOS machine.
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This technique should also work for any other tape drive
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supported by the ftape module, and for SCSI tape drives with suitable
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obvious changes (i.e. substituting /dev/st0 for /dev/ftape).
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<P>The criteria I set were that the resulting setup should be as secure
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as possible and should be fairly simple, and take up little or no space
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on the MS-DOS machine's hard drive. It should also be capable of
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recovering from the worst system corruptions, up to and including the
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theft of the hard disk, requiring a restore to a bare Linux file system.
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The technique described here uses no hard drive space on the MS-DOS
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machine, though it requires that that machine be assigned an IP#.
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You will need three formatted, blank 1.44MB diskettes.
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