On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Michael C. Robinson <plu...@robinson-west.com> wrote: >> Since you have a network with storage, perhaps setting up Samba and >> using Windows built in backup facilities to store the image that is >> created on the network? Maybe that would be a viable solution given my >> understanding of your network. If you can provide additional details >> about exactly how things are laid out specifically in relation to this >> particular task then we might be able to offer better tips and >> suggestions. >> >> Drew- > > Sorry, I didn't know what the acronym meant. I tried googling, but the > information I'm getting appears to be very old. I'm trying to build a > backup system via network that allows me to do bare metal recovery. > I.E., Windows 7 gets trashed and as soon as a new hard drive that > works is put in, it is time to restore the last known good copy. > > Notice I'm not saying reinstall, but restore. In order to restore, > potentially to a new hard drive of equal or greater size, there is > a need to replace the boot sector and all the data. The backup > system isn't just being set up for Windows, my personal system > runs Fedora. I'd like to support backing up my brother's Sunflower > G3 Mac as well running Mac OSX 10.3 I believe. > > Right now, I'm trying to get my level 0 raid to persist across reboots. > I have a terabyte decimal of storage using two WD PATA 500G hard drives, > which is about 900 gigs binary. Last time I rebooted, the hard drives > in the raid volume came up as having no superblock. > > I probably will have to google for this, but off hand, does anyone know > if a terabyte exceeds what ext3 can handle for a single filesystem? > > I'm running CentOS 5.5 on the server. > > Using dd to create an image is probably not the way to go even for > Windows, but I'm not sure if I can trust Linux's NTFS support. I > am open to better ways to do a backup, but right now I'm in the can > I keep the data storage volume stable across reboots and can I > support all of the different systems stage. > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >
This might be a better option that dd'ing the drive which seems rather ugly (but I get why you're doing it) http://www.openfiler.com/ or similar. Once I have the funds to build up a backup box I'm going with something like this. I'm using a cheap Netgear SAN right now. Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
