Re: ssystem recovery strategy

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 08:30:11AM -0800, Scot Harkins wrote:

> If you value your system...if it is critical to your business, consider
> backup and recovery software, like Microlite's BackupEDGE (with
> RecoverEDGE) or Lone Star Software's Lone-tar and Air-Bag.  They verify
> the backups to the bit-level and make recovery almost ridiculously
> easy.  You can see them at www.microlite.com and www.lone-tar.com.

Or non-proprietary solutions like my bare metal restore HOWTO (with
scripts), available at the Linux Documentation Project
(http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto) or a mirror near you, or at its
home page,
http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO.html

> 
> If the bosses blink at the price of the tape drive, tapes and software,
> ask them how much they pay in salary _per hour_ for the people affected
> by the system, or how much in sales that system supports per hour or per
> day, and think about that money going out the door while the system is
> down and people are not working at full capacity.  That usually makes
> the up-front expense look trivial.

Yep.

> 
> 
> sh
> 
> On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 07:05, Angelini Giuseppe wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > 
> > I would like to setup a system recovery strategy on our linux system
> > (RedHat 7.2).
> > I am really familar with dump/restore but apparently it is not
> > recommended with linux.
> > My idea was to put a dedicated local IDE disk and run a script invoking
> > CPIO to save the system
> > (/ /boot /export) every week on this disk.
> > The problem is that I do'nt know CPIO enough.
> > Can somebody advice me or send me an example of CPIO for doing both
> > backup and restore.
> > 
> > Any other suggestion will be welcome.
> > 
> > 
> > Best Regards.
> > 
> > Giuseppe Angelini
> -- 
> Scot Harkins (KA5KDU)
> Systems Engineer
> Apropos Retail Management Systems
> [email protected]
> http://www.aproposretail.com
> 

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