Image/backup

[Ugo Bellavance]

Andrew.Bridgeman at corusgroup.com wrote:

> |            We currently have a Redhat machine that is a 24/7 machine and |
> |            is critical to our company. We want to be able to get the     |
> |            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 add is that    |
> |            ideally we do not want to have any downtime on the server as i|
> |            said before it is used 24/7.                                  |
> |            Could anyone please advise in detail on how we might achieve  |
> |            this?                                                         |

I suggest partimage http://www.partimage.org/, mondorescue
http://www.mondorescue.org/ (+rsync), and systemimager
http://www.systemimager.org/.

-- 
Ugo

-> Please don't send a copy of your reply by e-mail.  I read the list.
-> Please avoid top-posting, long signatures and HTML, and cut the
irrelevant parts in your replies.