Even if you can do a cd/dvd image, once your done, data in the cd/dvd will most likely be different from your OS/Application.
Now, you did not mention if your company is small/medium/large. The reason is that rock solid solutions for this are expensive. For DR, you can do it via: Software: * Drbd - Some members on this list uses it. Check if it meets your needs. Software is free. * VVR - Veritas Volume Replicator. You need Veritas Foundation Suite for this. Very good solution for DR needs. Architected a solution for this 3 years ago on one of the company where I used to work, and a Terabyte of Oracle DB data at that time is being replicated to a DR site. Quarterly test shows the data to be good and usable all the time. This is done without touching the replicated data. cons are the software is expensive. The quote i got for the software is 300K PHP at that time. Hardware: * SRDF - From EMC. Now this are much more expensive and I guess only large company can afford this. * Tape backup offsite. This is more of a crude process strategy than anything else but it also works. Tape backups are replicated to another tape and are sent to the DR site. This is also doable, but the restore time is measured in days, not minutes. It isn't that bad when you are restoring the whole *infrastructure*, from routers, firewall, servers, etc. the whole nine yards. Have participated also on this type of strategy on a government ministry on a quarterly basis few years ago. As Ian mentioned too, check first your needs and budget before deciding which route to go. -- regards, Andre | http://www.varon.ca On 5/10/07, jan gestre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
hi guys, any of you have an idea on how to do this, basically what my boss wants to happen is in case of a disaster like fire or something destroyed all your hardware including backup drives, is it possible to make something like a cd/dvd image wherein you just install it on a new machine and all your applications and configurations will instantly be restored and no tweaking to be done. running applications are java, resin, mysql. TIA for your inputs. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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