On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:49 PM, drew wymore <drew.wym...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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- >
Perhaps yet another FOSS option http://www.clonezilla.org/ Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
