FWIW FDR's Upstream DR Recovery comes with a script you can use to automate a good chunk of the "due dillignce" aspect of this. It's not a panacea mind you but throw it in cron as shipped (unless running lvm then you need to uncomment some stuff) and at least you know you have all of the info you need to rebuild the box. If I had a few hours that I didn't know what to do with myself I always thought it could be tweaked to produce a script that did the recovery itself, rather than just a bunch of reports...
After reading the previous post though, does anyone know if that method would correctly configure the boot sector. Right now we build an empty system from the reader images, Install FDR DR Recovery Tool Restore. In the previous post it sounds like we could skip that first step as long as all of the filesystems were correctly laid out beneath the rescue box? TIA jrw Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> 07/24/2006 04:23 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: [LINUX-390] Bad Linux backups On 7/24/06, Stahr, Lea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These are standard image systems that I can clone from a master and have > in production in 2 hours. But what if its not standard? Then I have > customizations that are lost. Such an approach does require discipline to properly register what you have modified and to assure the copy of that customized file is held somewhere. You know what files the clone should have, if you also have a list of what you consider variable data or stuff that otherwise does not need to be backed up, the difference is what should have been registered as customization. You can use the check either to correct your registration or to educate your colleagues. Bonus points for when you can enhance the cloning process to also re-apply these customization things. If you keep the copy of the customized files in a handy way (e.g. an NSF server) you could get a mechanism for applying changes with it. You might have a look at cfEngine. -- Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
