I've used Mondo with some success. It saved me when a HD did a dummy spit. I just exclude large directories which are backed up seperately anyway. Mondo is more about quick recovery of software and configuration. It creates iso's which I store elsewhere and only burn if required. Or you can create DVD sets.
Restoring is easy, but I think it's probably a really good idea to do a trial run every now and then. Has anyone dutifully backed up only to find there was a problem with the restore when it was required? On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 15:34 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > Hello, > > We have a production CentOS 5 server which I need to be able to restore from > scratch (naturally). > > I'm currently backing up /etc, our own program's directory and a dump of our > databases on a daily basis. > > I'm considering adding /var/lib/rpm into the list and was wondering what > else would people recommend me to store away in order to enable me to > restore the system in case it crashes? > > I also plan adding "real-time" replication of the MySQL and PostgresQL > databases to off-site servers, so I hope this should cover databases up to a > few seconds. > > Thanks, > > --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
