On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 08:30:11AM -0800, Scot Harkins wrote: > If you value your system...if it is critical to your business, consider > backup and recovery software, like Microlite's BackupEDGE (with > RecoverEDGE) or Lone Star Software's Lone-tar and Air-Bag. They verify > the backups to the bit-level and make recovery almost ridiculously > easy. You can see them at www.microlite.com and www.lone-tar.com.
Or non-proprietary solutions like my bare metal restore HOWTO (with scripts), available at the Linux Documentation Project (http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto) or a mirror near you, or at its home page, http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO.html > > If the bosses blink at the price of the tape drive, tapes and software, > ask them how much they pay in salary _per hour_ for the people affected > by the system, or how much in sales that system supports per hour or per > day, and think about that money going out the door while the system is > down and people are not working at full capacity. That usually makes > the up-front expense look trivial. Yep. > > > sh > > On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 07:05, Angelini Giuseppe wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I would like to setup a system recovery strategy on our linux system > > (RedHat 7.2). > > I am really familar with dump/restore but apparently it is not > > recommended with linux. > > My idea was to put a dedicated local IDE disk and run a script invoking > > CPIO to save the system > > (/ /boot /export) every week on this disk. > > The problem is that I do'nt know CPIO enough. > > Can somebody advice me or send me an example of CPIO for doing both > > backup and restore. > > > > Any other suggestion will be welcome. > > > > > > Best Regards. > > > > Giuseppe Angelini > -- > Scot Harkins (KA5KDU) > Systems Engineer > Apropos Retail Management Systems > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.aproposretail.com > -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://w3.trib.com/~ccurley / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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