[K12OSN] Backing up a server...best methods

[Huck]

Hrm... Backuppc looks even more juicy than Les led on...
Looks like it makes backing up an entire network of workstations/servers 
fairly easy!
(once everything is set-up for it)

What intrigues me more, is I have a lab of 22 machines(all exact same 
image) for teaching.
Currently I build one machine install everything and configure how the 
teacher needs/likes it...
then I make an image with Ghost and then push the image onto all of the 
remaining 21 machines..all at once.
So about 20 minutes later the lab is complete and ready to go...

Backuppc does not appear to do this sort of 'multicasting'. Or am I wrong?
(is this the 'bare metal' type of restore you were addressing below?)

But I must say for all of the individual teacher's office and 
administration PC's this is gunna be HEAVEN.
Instead of a ghost image for each machine*not done*(or no backup unless 
they put files on the server where they SHOULD),
with pooling and compression it looks like less than 40 gigs of space 
will be taken up for ALL of the windows pc backups =)
Looks like a couple days worth of work to get it working properly, but 
after that heaven!

--Huck

Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 08:52, David Trask wrote:
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>>I thought I had made good backups with Mondo,
>>but when I went to use it....it wouldn't work.  So....I'm wondering about
>>some easy ways to do an entire bare metal backup of my server.
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>I repeat this a couple of times a month here, but get backuppc
>   http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
>running on something that has at least 20% of the disk space you
>think you should need to hold a week's worth of backups. (Compression
>and linking save a lot of space).
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>>I have
>>plenty of space on an NFS share with a full gigabit link between both
>>servers.
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>I'd go with a big cheap IDE drive and back up your nfs server too,
>but this will work if you don't have other space available.
>
>A bare-metal restore from backuppc is kind of brute-force command line
>stuff at this point but it can be done from a knoppix or similar CD
>boot which gives you a lot more chances to get it right than a canned
>system like mondo.  Also, you can't beat the ease of grabbing single
>files or directories from it and since it runs automatically you'll
>always have an up to date copy.
>
>
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>  Les Mikesell
>   les at futuresource.com
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