Full system tape backup

[Ben Pfaff]

Benjamin Minshall <minshal1@pilot.msu.edu> writes:

> Does Linux have a utility to do a full system backup similar to
> comercial Unices' mksysb?  For those not familiar with the command,
> mksysb does a backup of everything on the machine including drive
> structures, partition tables and all of the included data.  It records
> this system 'image' to a bootable SCSI tape.

Is this different from running something like this:
	dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/st0
Although typical Linux boxes don't have the ability to boot from
tape, so that part can't be easily replicated.