Paul Bijnens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Even more important than who uses it, is how good is it. > And I can tell you from personal experience this last month that it > works very good. I had 4 disk crashes over a period of 5 weeks now > (yes, that's more than the 15 years before), all on critical systems.
Interesting.. We've had two hard disks fail recently, along with our
Amanda tape drive (the holding disk allowed us to do 4 backups before a new
drive showed up). I've also heard of other people having unusual problems
in the last few weeks.. Makes me wonder if there was some excess solar
radiation or something recently.
> I've restored everything from amanda tapes, up to the last byte.
> Among the crashed disks was: one with home directories for a complete
> department (on Solaris), one with the second drive on a PC running
> W2000 (containing only data), one with the only disk in Linux computer
> (boot from cd, and restore over the network), and another one containing
> the root filesystem of a Linux machine, located outside the firewall (boot
> from cd, while computer is moved inside firewall, and restore over network).
> Between crash and final reboot was no more then 3 hours for each of the
> systems.
I'm curious, do people have a preferred recovery CD? I got stuck with an
old Linuxcare bootable business card (burned onto a regular-sized CD) the
other day that had some pretty aincent stuff on it. That restore is still
in progress, unfortunately.. I'm hoping to have better luck using a more
recent LNX-BBC 1.618.
Since our tape drive had failed recently, I just copied the relevant dumps
onto my laptop's hard drive and I've been using netcat (nc) to send the
dumps to the system I'm restoring on..
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Mike Hicks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Unix Support Assistant | Carlson School of Management
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