Weli backup "/" on all my servers, all my server have software raid mirror, i have had bad experiance with raid 5 so i am happy with mirroring...
So i boot up with knoppix and then go to backupppc and simply do a restore to the bare metal machine drive? All servers except my NFS have one partition.... that are mirrored... makes it easy that way for restoral i figure.... I was just wondering how backuppc would be able to restore using the web gui as the bare metal machine would not know about the ssh keys and such... i have to put up a new server soon i would like to try it on that machine.... Thanks again for your input, its very reassuring to know that backuppc can help out in a bare metal restore too! :) Rob Morin Director of Technologies Dido Internet Inc. Montreal,Canada http://www.dido.ca 514-990-4444 Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 11/05 01:19 , Rob Morin wrote: > >> Thanks for all the info.... i really appreciate it... So i am wondering >> then if its just not the best and quickest in the end to simply install >> a basic system via Debian's net install ad then restore backuppc over >> that? as that only takes 20 mins or so.... >> > > if you're restoring an entire system, then installing the base system and > the necessary packages, then clobbering it with the restored system, seems > rather redundant. > > if you only made a partial backup of your linux system; you ought to get a > bigger backup server disk so you can afford to spend a couple hundred MB to > get the system files backed up; you'll likely need them anyway to get your > system working again. > > booting with knoppix or its equivalent, and then restoring to the bare > metal, is pretty easy. try it sometime. it's a very good skill to know; not > just for the sake of doing restores, but also because you can use it to > clone a working system. I demonstrate this occasionally when I teach linux > administration classes and a student breaks their machine thoroughly. :) > > >> But another quick question is i have a raid mirror, does this affect >> anything t a great deal? Should i be more careful with anything? >> > > if it's hardware raid, it doesn't make much difference, other than that your > rescue system needs to support the device. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
