Disaster recovery recommendations for RH Linux 8.0...

Tue Apr 27 14:37:19 UTC 2004

On Tuesday 27 April 2004 10:07 am, Ken Morley wrote:
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> 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).

You may want to take a loot at mondo: http://www.mondorescue.org/

> I may just buy two identical disk drives, install to one, image to the
> other and then remove and store the "spare" drive.  Can anyone recommend
> disk imaging software for this purpose?  I've looked at Ghost, but it
> doesn't handle symbolic links and that would be a problem.

Another options is to do RAID 1 so that the two drives keep mirroring each 
other. That way the system will be able to tolerate  1 hard drive failure. 

RDB

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Reuben D. Budiardja
Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
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