On 07/23 03:15 , Rob Owens wrote: > > No, what I'm saying is that you should build your installation on some > > arbitrary system somewhere; get it working (but not full of data); then > > boot your real server hardware with knoppix, set up the drives with RAID; > > then clone your installation onto the bare drives. Are you familiar with > > cloning an OS installation across a network via tar+netcat? It's pretty > > much the same thing as using BackupPC_tarCreate to generate a tar stream and > > send that across the network onto a drive somewhere else; except you run a > > tar command on the sending side instead of a BackupPC command. > I'll look into that. But it sounds like it's not exactly what I'm > looking for.
The above paragraph is just for setting up your backup server on RAID1, if the Knoppix installer didn't support doing that by itself. > I'm shooting for something that requires no user > intervention when installing in a new machine. I think what you are > suggesting would require somebody to verify that the correct module for > the ethernet card, for instance, gets installed. No, for your hypothetical disaster-recovery situation, some of the ideas I proposed were: - Mail one of your RAID disks with OS+data pool, have them boot from that. (OS being Knoppix on that disk). - Mail one of your RAID disks with just the data pool. Then have the remote site plug the drive in some way or another (doesn't have to be a bootable method of attaching; not all machines can boot from firewire for instance). Then have them boot that machine with Knoppix and let you in via ssh, from whence you can do all your restores remotely. Mind you, there's probably better ways out there than the ones I'm thinking of. Maybe something involving Mondo will be appropriate for your bare-metal restores. (Its hardware detection isn't as good as knoppix; but the simplicity is hard to beat). -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
