I am not a Windows "Guy" I live my life 90% administering SCO and LINUX but have 20 Windows Servers that sort of fell into my realm. I am used to our solution "Micorlite BackupEdge" which has a set of rescue Disks that allow you to recover from any major disaster or hard drive failure in about an hour for the size of my *nix systems. So when looking at these windows servers I am looking for the same solution. Edge will also repartition the drive in proportion to the different size as usually you can't get the exact same drive when this happens.
I will investigate your proposal. On these systems the C drive is a 146gb RAID 1 array and the D drive is a 200gb RAID 1 Array. I have to ask the "stupid" question what is dd? Thanks for the reply it is helpful. >>> Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> 07/31/09 12:19 AM >>> > I am looking fir an Open Source Backup solution for Windows Server 2008 > that would provide for disaster recovery. We plan to use BackupPC for > the day to day backups via rsync but I need something to handle on site > at the server for that dreaded day when it goes belly up. On my SCO and > LINUX boxes I use BackupEdge from Microlite. This works great on my SCO > boxes especially when I have to restore the entire system due to hard > drive failure (they aren't RAID systems). Depending on exactly what you're trying to do and what you count - I don't think you're going to find that. Well, you could boot from a rescue CD and use "dd" which is technically a DR backup and free opensource. However, I don't think that's what you had in mind. Have you considered VM's? I find that Linux running VMWare, to allow an AD server guest is generally wonderful. And your DR couldn't get any simpler. Power off the windows server, copy the VM files, and power it back on. If you require 24/7 uptime, it would need to be a little more complicated but also doable. Whenever I can't use a VM, what I actually do is this: I let the C: drive only be 30G or so. And I actually power down and use dd to backup both the MBR and the C: partition. That way I've got my DR plan, assuming I can get replacement identical hardware. Which is a major assumption. I let the rest of the drive be partitioned to a D: drive for data. And I use whatever normal backup tool I want (backup exec, ntbackup, rsync, etc) to backup the D: drive separately from the C: drive. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
