Make restore cds(dvds)

[David Havery]

I've been tasked with coming up with a way to essentially create a 
'restore cd' for our systems. In reality, I would really need restore 
DVDs, plural. The average sized system is appx 20gigs. The idea is that 
when a machine is done, we can create a set of dvd's (bootable) that 
will allow us to restore the machine to the way it was if something were 
to happen to it.

The catch is that I cannot add hardware to the system, no tape drives, 
no spare hdd's etc. So although I respect your opinions and options, 
please don't turn this thread into a discussion about them.

At the moment, I'm concerning myself with only one ide(p/sata) drive, 
tho we often use raid1 (shouldn't be an issue) and raid5 (I don't THINK 
it should be an issue). The arrays don't solve our problem for two 
reasons; all drives in an array could be damaged and the system could 
become corrupt from configuration and administration but still sound as 
far as data goes.

The restore should be able to restore to a bare drive (it's not 
unreasonable to us to make the user create the arrays before hand).  The 
drive may not be the exact same model/size.

Thanks for reading this far, and thanks for your future advice
dhh

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David Havery
dhavery at psslabs.com
http://www.pssclabs.com
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