I had an idea and wanted to get some feedback from you guys. I'd like to make an easy method for restoring large off-site backups in the event the host loses all of its data. The fastest way to do this is probably to send the physical hard drive to the place where the host resides, via overnight mail. (The idea being that a local restore of 100GB of data will be much faster than an over-the-internet restore). The issue then becomes getting the pooled data off of that hard drive and back onto the host in question.
My idea is to run my BackupPC server on a hard drive installation of Knoppix. Every time you booted the BackupPC server, it would run through the hardware autodetection like it does when you boot a Knoppix live cd. The advantage is that I could install that hard drive (or a mirror of it) into any machine and with zero configuration I'd have an operational clone of my BackupPC server. This makes it very simple to mail or hand-deliver the hard drive and restore locally. I've remastered Knoppix before, so I think I can handle this project. But before I get started, does anybody know of an easier way of achieving what I'm trying to achieve? And does anybody have any advice regarding doing this with Knoppix? One specific question: does anybody know if it's possible to install Knoppix like this using software RAID 1? -Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
