I've got the following:
2 x servers - single small hard drives in each
1 x desktop - four hard drives including one removeable drive in a caddy
intended solely for back up purposes.
I run Mondo on the two servers periodically with the intention of being able to
do a disaster [1] recovery quickly. Mondo produces 2 DVD images for each server.
I run rsync nightly (good enough for my purposes) for more volatile data such as
email, databases etc. Everything is very tidy.
The desktop has about 350G of data and software. The software is unbelievably
complicated because I use it to test server set-ups and odd bits of software
etc. In other words, it's a dog's breakfast.
I would like to run Mondo or something similar on this machine too, but I fear
it would not be practical. At the moment I run rsync for the most obvious data,
but that doesn't help with all the complicated software, and I would like to be
able to recover that too in the event of disaster [1].
What's the current best practice for back up in this kind of situation?
thanks,
David
[1] Disaster such as: earthquake, fire, pestilence, inappropriate rm.
PS: On a Mac, you can usually take a hard drive out of one machine and put it
in another and it will "just work". How much tweaking to get the same result on
linux/ubuntu?
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