On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Father Parthenios wrote:
> I need to write out a disaster recovery plan for a Linux Fileserver
> running
> Redhat 5.2. It has a SCSI Travan 4 gig tape drive and a 2 gig hard
disk.
>
> Would I simply be able to tar the contents of the hard disk to the
tape,
> then to restore in the event of a hard disk crash, reinstall Redhat and
> then
> restore from the tape drive?
>
> Is it that easy?
>
If hd failure is the only disaster you have to worry about, yes.
(You're not dealing with your site burning down or sustaining a nuclear
attack:-)
You'll probably need a replacement for the hd that's going to fail, too.
If you really want to get into it, you can probably make a rescue
floppy with scsi disk annd tape drivers and tar and restore the whole hd
from the rescue floppy plus the tape, but it seems to me that a CD is
better backup for the system part of the hd, and it makes sennse to back
up to tape only the files you are serving.
> Father Parthenios
> (800) 227-1629
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