On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, James Melin wrote: > We are having a Disaster Recovery exercise in April. My boss thinks it > would be nifty if we could recover the 2.4 Linux system I just got > installed (with much help from you SMOONOL's - Secret Masters Of Obscure > kNowledge Of Linux). > > The disaster recovery exercise will not allow us to have an organization > employee with access to the HMC on which we will be operating, we would > have to rely on someone at the vendor site to do any HMC interactions for > us. We will be doing this in LPAR mode - We do not have VM, and with a 25% > budget cut across IT, we won't be getting it any time soon. > > Secondly, the DR exercise will have us restoring OS/390 volumes to > different device numbers than what exist here. We have procedures in place > for that and it all works. I will have to do the same with the CDL backups > of the Linux volumes >
One thing you can do to help, at least with EXT2/EXT3 filesystems is to ensure each is uniquely labelled, and those labels are used in /etc/fstab. This allows your disks to be moved around somewhat. I don't know, though, how you handle RAID or LVM. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
