[opensuse] Disaster Recovery Options


[opensuse] Disaster Recovery Options
\ William Hammond (4 May 2008)
. \ Andreas van dem Helge (4 May 2008)
. \ Sam Clemens (4 May 2008)
. \ Ken Schneider (4 May 2008)
. . \ William Hammond (4 May 2008)
. \ David C. Rankin (4 May 2008)
. \ Sam Clemens (5 May 2008)

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Subject:	[opensuse] Disaster Recovery Options
Group:	Suse-linux-e
From:	William Hammond
Date:	4 May 2008

I have a number of small OpenSuSE 10.3 Samba File Servers.

They have commercial software that does a good job of backing up.
but, like most, not such a good job of restoring.

Especially if you need to do a bare metal recovery.

On some of these systems I keep an identical drive already set up
so that if needed I can plug it in and do a data only restore.

I don't use or believe that strongly in mirroring or duplexing so I
don't want to go there.

Question is: What are the easiest/best solutions for Disaster Recovery...?

One that a "Shop Owner" could perform with a little help.

These Servers don't have any "IT" people on staff, but I'd like them
to be as in dependant as
possible in a crisis. I'm open to both built in tools (dump/restore
rsync, etc.),
although I'm not that familiar with them, and commercial..

All these systems have DVD Writers and the Backup is to DDS-4 DAT Drives

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