Mirror Mirror

[Scott Mertens]

On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 15:39 -0700, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> Because of all the things that CAN go wrong besides drives, I'm leaning
> towards just having a spare machine running. Every night all changed data
> (I'm thinking var and home, but what else) would be copied over to the
> backup machine. Should ANYTHING in the main machine die, I change a couple
> things in the router and the backup machine is online. I like the
> once-a-day copy instead of the continuous copy of RAID in that if
> something goes wrong, with RAID, we get nice copies of bad data. I've got
> hardware RAID on a Windoze machine here and it's corrupted all the RAID
> drives pretty often!
> 
> On Norton Ghost, it WILL make a copy of a drive, including linux file
> systems. I've found, though, that the drive you're copying to really needs
> to be very close (exactly the same?) as the original drive or it just
> won't boot. I have a copy of Norton Ghost on floppy and just boot the
> machine with that to make a Ghost backup. It's actually running PC-DOS.
> 


Good idea, but I like to automate backups as much as possible.  I do a
lot of travel and if left up to me it might not get backed up for a few
weeks. However I hadn't thought about booting to the DOS on the Ghost CD
and trying it.