Re: backup plan bare metal

2005-10-06 Thread R Ransbottom
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 12:28:15AM -0500, Rodney Richison wrote: > Would be interested in seeing what some of you use for a backup plan. > Mainly for servers. > Tar? > Easy/quick way to restore bare metal? Some of the replies you have gotten seem to miss the point of "bare metal recovery"; which

RE: backup plan bare metal

2005-09-20 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: Rodney Richison wrote: > Would be interested in seeing what some of you use for a backup plan. > Mainly for servers. > Tar? > Easy/quick way to restore bare metal? > Rsync? Can it do bare metal? what about hard links? > Again, easy/quick way to restoe entire debian server? > Unfortun

Re: backup plan bare metal

2005-09-19 Thread Marty
Rodney Richison wrote: Would be interested in seeing what some of you use for a backup plan. Mainly for servers. Tar? Easy/quick way to restore bare metal? Rsync? Can it do bare metal? what about hard links? It's possible using a rescue floppy or knoppix. Again, easy/quick way to restoe ent

Re: backup plan bare metal

2005-09-19 Thread David Koski
On Monday 19 September 2005 10:50 pm, Alvin Oga wrote: > > Rsync? > > rsync is extremely bad idea because: I think rsync is an extremely good idea for data backup. > - whatever caused your main server to die will propagate > itself on your backup server when you use rsync Huh? >

Re: backup plan bare metal

2005-09-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya rodney On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Rodney Richison wrote: > Would be interested in seeing what some of you use for a backup plan. backup plan ... i always run 3-5 duplicate servers at the same time .. just change the ip# and the backup machine would be live > Tar? find | tar | grep -i

Re: backup plan bare metal

2005-09-19 Thread David Koski
On Monday 19 September 2005 10:28 pm, Rodney Richison wrote: > Would be interested in seeing what some of you use for a backup plan. > Mainly for servers. > Tar? > Easy/quick way to restore bare metal? > > Rsync? Can it do bare metal? what about hard links? > Again, easy/quick way to restoe entire

backup plan bare metal

2005-09-19 Thread Rodney Richison
Would be interested in seeing what some of you use for a backup plan. Mainly for servers. Tar? Easy/quick way to restore bare metal? Rsync? Can it do bare metal? what about hard links? Again, easy/quick way to restoe entire debian server? Unfortunatly, I've found mondo unreliable for bare metal