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Operating Systems Linux tar archive Post 302410744 by ahyes on Tuesday 6th of April 2010 06:32:05 PM
Old 04-06-2010
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Tar archives are not actually bootable. Really, there isn't any sort of way to boot from that. What you could with a tar archive would be use a rescue mode linux session to re-partition your hard disk, and then extract the contents of your tar archive (consider it similar to a zip file), to the filesystem while it is mounted.

Are you simply looking for a good way of recovering in the event of disaster? I'd recommend making use of r1soft's CDP platform. Some information about that can be found at r1soft.com.
 

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