Bare metal recovery

[Smith, Albert]

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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Shane Presley
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 11:15 AM
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> Subject: Re: Bare metal recovery
> 
> On 10/19/05, Smith, Albert <Albert.Smith at genexservices.com> wrote:
> > I use mondorescue and it works great for me.
> 
> Very interesting package.  We use Veritas NetBackup for tape 
> backup of our system, but that doesn't help us with bare 
> metal restores.  Our current procedure is rather complicated, 
> but we install a fresh new OS and veritas netbackup client, 
> dump the veritas restored data to a second drive, install 
> grub on the second drive, and boot from it.
> 
> Anyway monorescue looks a lot easier.  But I'm wonder how we 
> could integrate it with Veritas (for tape backup).  We don't 
> have any CD Burners, and our systems are often large (100GB).
> 
> Shane
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I use veritas here as well and a good work around would be is. Use Mondo
to do y
our operating system and do an image once a month or whenever a
significat system change occurs. And use veritas to backup your user
data. 

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