Disaster recovery recommendations for RH Linux 8.0...

Ed Wilts ewilts at ewilts.org
Tue Apr 27 14:28:52 UTC 2004


On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:07:31AM -0400, Ken Morley wrote:
> I have a RH Linux 8.0 server used to filter email for spam and virues.  It
> receives email, filters it through SpamAssassin and ClamAV and then relays
> the email to our Exchange server.  The email is only on the server for a few
> seconds.

This is what we do here.  The way we've solved it is to run 2 RHL
servers and have DNS records that round-robin between them.  If either
system fails, the other will take 100% of the load, but on average, each
system takes half the load.

> Can anyone recommend a simple, inexpensive solution that would allow me to
> image the hard drive periodically and quickly restore to a replacement hard
> drive?  I'm thinking that the backup media would probably be CD-ROM (the
> entire installation is only about 800MB uncompressed).

http://www.mondorescue.org

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