Restore from Dump on tape

[Brad Crotchett]

Good deal, thanks for the help.  We are currently untarring a backup as that
was the fastest available backup at the time.  If that works ok, we are good
to go.  If not, we will go for the restore from tape.  Thanks for the quick
response, rest assured we will be here a while tonight!

Brad

>Interesting things may happen in the /var and /tmp directories.  Such as
>lock files being clobbered and losing permissions to open new xterms,
>etc...  I doubt you would clobber anything interesting in the workhorse
>/bin, /sbin, /usr, or the popular /home directories.  If you have a full
>server running, new processes might in a rare case find very old
>configuration files interesting.

>I don't know the "correct" way, but I would switch to runlevel 1 (init 1)
>to close all open files. Make sure the system log daemon is not running to
>update files.  Just a shell.  If you were to put the drive in sleep mode,
>you may find there will be no writes to wake it back up in this state.
>That is good.  As long as no new processes are launched, no old files will
>be opened again.  When you are done, run the sync command before
>restarting the system.

>Another way might be to boot off a boot floppy, such as slack, or even a
>bootable ISO, and do it all from there.

>There are even sneaky ways you can even wipe over the drive while the
>system is running.  Safe ways of doing this would require more time than
>might be worth it, but you can make a RAM disk of a small system and
>chroot into there, remount the drive as read-only, and go to town.