Image/backup

[Smith, Albert]

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> |            We currently have a Redhat machine that is a 
> 24/7 machine and |
> |            is critical to our company. We want to be able 
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> |            machine back to its current state if it where to 
> blow up or   |
> |            something else extreme should happen. Basically 
> we want to be |
> |            able put two new disks in the machine in 
> question in the event|
> |            of a problem and be up a running within minutes. 
> The current  |
> |            two disks are Hardware mirrored so we would need 
> the same     |
> |            info/data/config on two new disks and then they 
> can sit in our|
> |            safe incase of a emergency. One other thing to 
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> |            ideally we do not want to have any downtime on 
> the server as i|
> |            said before it is used 24/7.                     
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> |            Could anyone please advise in detail on how we 
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The ideal scenario would to cluster the machine and use a disaster
recovery product to backup the system to an image. However recovering
from the image will not take minutes it would take a few hours. I would
seriously look a cluster solution.



Albert Smith
Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
HPCSA, RHCT
Genex Services
440 E. Swedesford Rd.
Wayne, PA 19087
albert.smith at genexservices.com
(610) 964-5154