I don't think the beast you're looking for exists. Backuppc I mentioned already is multi-platform and fully automated but it does not do bare-metal backup/restore. You can't mirror a drive that is running, unless you do something like take a snapshot of the filesystem and backup that snapshot. AFAIK this doesn't exist under linux, under Windows I have no idea, and for Mac OSX this is called time machine. You can have an AFP linux server (package netatalk, version 2.0.5 onwards) serve volumes to macs, and the macs will store their timemachine backups on the share. You get true mirroring. I use this for the macs. For the linux machines, I use backuppc and save critical information like /etc/, /home/ and from this I can rebuild if things go real bad. But it is no mirror.
Long time ago I was using mondorescue which was pulling tricks to mirror a running linux machine, then build a bootable cd-rom for bare-metal restore. It worked great, but I am not sure it still does. The author got bored and linux has changed a lot since then. It's still there, maybe you can have a look: http://www.mondorescue.org/ -- epoch1970 Daily dose delivered by: 2 SB Classic (fw 130), 1 SB Boom (fw 50) SqueezeCenter 7.3.4 (Debian 5.0) with plugins: ContextMenu, SaverSwitcher by Peter Watkins Server Power Control by Gordon Harris WeatherTime by Martin Rehfeld IRBlaster by Gwendesign (Felix) FindArt, CDplayer by bpa BBC iPlayer, SwitchPlayer by Triode PowerSave by Jason Holtzapple TrackStat by Erland Isaksson. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82338
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