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>Preparation</TITLE
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>Linux Complete Backup and Recovery HOWTO</TH
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>3. Preparation</H1
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>WARNING</B
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>Do your normal backups on their regular schedule. This HOWTO is useless if you don't do that.</P
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>Build yourself a rescue disk. I now use <A
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>Knoppix</A
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>. See the notes on <A
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HREF="distributionspecificnotes.html#KNOPPIX"
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>Knoppix</A
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> below. However, Knoppix has a problem: no LVM support. If you want to recover logical volumes, get a distribution that supports them. For this I use <A
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>finnix</A
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>.</P
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>In the past, I have used <A
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HREF="http://www.toms.net/rb"
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>tomsrtbt</A
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>. It is well documented and packs a lot of useful tools onto one floppy diskette. Unfortunately, the changes I've had to make in the scripts to handle more recent Linux systems cause problems for <A
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>tomsrtbt</A
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>. The <A
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>tomsrtbt</A
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> 2.0.103 tar is based on <A
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>busybox</A
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>, so remarks about it may apply to other Linux disties which use busybox.</P
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>We will call whatever Linux you use the <SPAN
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>"restoration Linux"</SPAN
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>Next, figure out how to do the operating system backup you will need so that you can restore your normal backup. I followed Preston's advice and used an Iomega parallel port ZIP drive. The drives get approximately 90 MB of useful storage to a disk. I need about 85 MB to back up my desktop, so a 100MB ZIP drive may be pushing your luck.</P
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>3.1. Installing the ZIP Drive</H2
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>Installing the ZIP drive is covered in the <A
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>ZIP Drive HOWTO</A
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>, available at <A
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>the Linux Documentation Project</A
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> and at its home page, <A
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>http://www.njtcom.com/dansie/zip-drive.html</A
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