Once again YES ! and there are probably many way's you can find out about then by reading the doc on redhat site (I have already giving theses to you in one of my reply's, please read !)
The following is one of the many way.
"It is a META SCRIPT!" You as a system manager are suppose to be able to fill in the gaps !
shutdown system boot into single user mode
#mount
#mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
#dump -0f /dev/nst0 /
NOTE dump only works on ext2 file system!
Do this on all mount point you need a backup from (like ex: /usr /myapplic /ora1 ..etc)
to find out about theses have a look in cat /etc/fstab
depending on the lenght of you tape you may need to do this on two tapes (to find this out do a df -h and compare with the capacity of your tape )
when you have finished do a
# mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
(this is because you have used /dev/nst0) on your dump command.
so at the end of this you have "let say 2 rewinded tapes) with on 1 /,/usr,home and on the 2 /myapplic, /ora1, /ora2 ".
reboot system .
On the new system
boot from install cd in rescue mode (linux rescue) this will drop you in a shell as root
note to boot into rescue (you can also use floppys like tomsrt, or cd like knoppix do a search on the web here to find link to theses)
Put the first tape in tape drive.
now partition your disk using fdisk like
ex:
#fdisk /dev/hda
here you have to know what your doing if not (read man page and redhat doc)
ex: make the same partion size or bigger then what you find on you Old 5.2 system to see these with the command #fdisk -l)
do the same for /dev/hbb
To mark one partition as bootable please see my previous reply !
then make file system on you partitions ex:
#mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda1
do this for all partition (use old 5.2 system as reference)
mount the first partion (use the same order as is on tape ex; /, /usr, ...)
ex:
#mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
# cd /mnt
#restore -xf /dev/nst0
when done
#cd ..
umount /mnt
then procede to restore second mount point
#mount /dev/hda2 /mnt
# cd /mnt
#restore -xf /dev/nst0
do this for all mount point !
NOTE; dont get mixed-up do it in the same order as on tape !!never rewinding tape otherwise this can get confusing!)
do the same to the second tape and mount point !
when all done physicaly detach system from the lan then reboot ! (dont want to have to system with the same ip/name on youe lan)
Once the system is booted you will have to check for error THERE WILL be some you have different hardware and maybe you had minor restore issues correct these and change this system to an other IP address and IP name ... before putting it on the net.
Beware the above is just an untryed senario of how I would go about it, YOU are responsible for your action, but I belive the above with a few modification would work.
J-P (please forgive the use of UPPER case in the above reply, they are just there because I dont know how underline would show up )
Smile I will feel the difference
