On 07/10 12:23 , Kurt Tunkko wrote: > My Idea was todo a full diskimage of the server and then to (r)sync > daily to the external harddrive. This harddrive will then be stores > away when everybody is out of office.
Rsync scales poorly to millions of files; the memory requirements are too high and you'll run the box out of memory very easily. > What do you think may be the right approach? For the moment, the proposed solution of making/breaking a mirror seems to be the favored one. > Also I would like to hear if and how you made bare metal recovery's with > backuppc(s data). I've done it a bunch of times; at least on Linux boxen. (Windows is obviously much more difficult due to the registry and the lack of a good tool to rewrite the bootloader). The basic idea of it is: boot bare metal machine with knoppix or some other rescue distro BackupPC_tarCreate | netcat to baremetal machine | untar rewrite the bootloader reboot and you're done It works pretty much the same way you'd clone a machine. -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
