On 07/23 09:22 , Rob Owens wrote: > My idea is to run my BackupPC server on a hard drive installation of > Knoppix.
<snip> > I've remastered Knoppix before, Why do you need to remaster Knoppix? I would guess that you should just have to find a way to install Knoppix to a RAID1 system*, then in case of disaser mail one of the disks to the location in question and have them boot it. That's what it sounded like you were talking about. * To install Knoppix to a software RAID system; if the installer can't do it, I'd suggest installing to a single drive (a vmware session would be ideal) and then cloning it to a RAID array. I'd also suggest that you have a hot spare drive in your RAID1 array; so you can break the mirror but still have redundancy. The alternative is to put just your offsite data pool (/var/lib/backuppc) on a drive, and then when need be, just mail that drive and a Knoppix CD to the remote location. Tell them to plug in the drive (maybe internal to some box, maybe in a firewire enclosure, doesn't matter) and boot the machine with Knoppix, then run the 'sshstart' tool to allow you to log in remotely. At that point you install backuppc to the Knoppix ramdrive (since it uses unionfs, you can install software to the running system as if it was on an HDD), and use it with your data pool drive (and the /etc/backuppc files copied from your offsite server) to restore the data. I suspect the latter option will be more flexible when dealing with funky hardware; but I'm not certain. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
