Ok, Maybe its just my DOS experience...

["Steven Hildreth" <steven aprotex com>]

I suppose I have been tainted by the MS-DOS experience, creating and
restoring backups is a piece of cake. I have tried several things to create
a total system backup unsuccessfully.

I have tried the suggestion to my last post with no success, my tar's do not
restore correctly or some permission something is not correct.

I am wanting to create a backup plan that will allow me to put in a floppy
disk and the tape into my SCSI tape drive, go eat a sandwich come back
remove the floppy and tape and reboot the system to a fully restored system.

I would like this backup to be automated (the backup to the tape). I need a
boot floppy to include the SCSI driver (is it in the kernel?)

I currently create a "tar" file from a cron every night. But in order for me
to restore anything from the tape to a blank (or dead) hard drive, I must
first install from the distro CD then untar from the tape. This process only
allows me to restore the /home. /var/spool and /etc directory and I must
remember the original layout of the partitions.

If it is a commercial version of software I need to do this, please point me
to it.

I try to read the manuals for CatRescue and such but I do not know enough
about linux to understand.

Thanks for any help.

Regards..
Steven Hildreth