Re: [PLUG] restoring from a backup tape....

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 08:50:07AM -0400, George Gallen wrote:
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> ok. 
> 
> I have a backup tape of the 7.2 system.
> 
> last night I tried doing an install of 8.0, then went into single
> user and did a full restore from tape of / (which kind of co-mingled
> 8.0 with the 7.2)
> 
> Did a reboot, the 8.0 boot choices came up, and it hung during
> initialization.

Restore, then move the drive to another machine to read the stuff off
that you want.

Alternatively, chroot to somewhere harmless before doing the restore.

-- 
 Jeff

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