[Gllug] backup solution

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 06:19:24PM +0100, itsbruce at uklinux.net wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 05:37:36PM +0100, John Hearns wrote:
> > Two suggestions:
> > Get a CD writer and use Mondo Rescue http://www.mondorescue.org
> > 
> > Get a cheap tape drive and use Arkeia http://www.arkeai.com
> > (Arkeia could also back up to spare hard drives, as 'virtual' tape drives)
> 
> You can combine Mondo Rescue and a regular tape backup.  The problem
> with tape backups, in the case of a major failure, is getting back to a
> state where you can recover the backup from the tapes.  With Mondo you
> could, for example, take an occasional snapshot of your system to CD (or
> whichever is the most suitable of the several options for backup media
> with Mondo) and do regular backups to tape.  If there's a disaster you
> can restore a working system very quickly using Mondo and then bring it
> up to date using the tapes.

This is why I always partition a smallish /boot & Root file system.
These can then be brought back in easily (off a rescue disk or something)
after fdisk'ing the new disk, you then boot to single user mode & restore the rest.

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