Noob here. Won't MONDO handle the same task?
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Zak B. Elep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Nhadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a tool i can use to fully backup a system to an ISO image and > > preserve all files? > > So that if ever something happens to any of my server, i can simply > > reinstall from the ISO image, no need for me to do reconfiguration on > > the services running on it. > > I would suggest looking at an archival storage solution like > Venti-backup[0], which can enable you to do daily snapshots of your > server filesystem to a remote Venti[1] server (whose arena partitions > you can burn to CD/DVD, as soon as you fill up one, as Venti also > coalesce duplicate used blocks for free due to its content-addressing > approach to storage.) Recovery is almost always just an easy mount of > the remote Venti (as an NFSv3 server,) selecting the snapshot to use > (e.g. 2008/0923) and a recursive copy. > > If you find that too way over your head (I admit its a very Plan 9-ish > way of doing it, but its very solid, and the sources tree has it > running for the last 6 years now,) you can also try glastree[2] or > pdumpfs[3] which work in similar ways (except they don't do block > coalescing, as they back up at the filesystem level.) > > There's also the upcoming Foundation,[4] but it has yet to be > presented at USENIX. > > [0] http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man8/vbackup.html > [1] http://cm.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/venti/venti.html > [2] http://old.igmus.org/code/ > [3] http://0xcc.net/pdumpfs/index.html.en > [4] http://swtch.com/~rsc/papers/fndn/<http://swtch.com/%7Ersc/papers/fndn/> > > -- > Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org > [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- David Tacasa Asuncion, Jr. website keeper, forever linux newbie, BUM extraordinaire Linux User # 406430 http://counter.li.org/ GPG: 0A024BC0
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