DrDebian
05-01-2001, 12:06 PM
This really isn't a question, but a short statement about backing up.
For the past few days, I've been experimenting with a new (and BTW very very cool) filesystem (ReiserFS, anyone?). To make the switch, I needed some way to free my current / in order to convert it. Running only SCSI devices, I figured it would be a good idea to pop in that spare IDE drive I had and copy everything there.
It worked for the most part, but mixing IDE and SCSI left me with a sorts of funky problems concerning my BIOS, LiLo and the order of bootable disks in my system.
Anyway, I managed to get everything back to SCSI and remove the temporary IDE disk.
But all the fuss I had this weekend taught me a lesson: Everybody should have some sort of disaster recovery kit! Even though I had full backups available through my DAT streamer, they were of little use thanks to the fact that I had switched the FS.
So, to cut a long story short, I went looking for some way to do a bare-metal restore in a sensible way.
IMHO I found the perfect tool: mkCDrec. This ingenious piece of software creates a full recovery kit on multiple CDs, containing all the tools you specify, your current kernel, all your precious data and the kitchen sink as well! Best of all, it even does disk partitioning on freshly replaced disks, allowing for a quick and painless restore in case of hardware failure.
Apart from that, it also handles (remote!) streamer tapes and has the ability to clone harddisks using rsh.
This is way cool! :cool:
[ 01 May 2001: Message edited by: DrDebian ]
For the past few days, I've been experimenting with a new (and BTW very very cool) filesystem (ReiserFS, anyone?). To make the switch, I needed some way to free my current / in order to convert it. Running only SCSI devices, I figured it would be a good idea to pop in that spare IDE drive I had and copy everything there.
It worked for the most part, but mixing IDE and SCSI left me with a sorts of funky problems concerning my BIOS, LiLo and the order of bootable disks in my system.
Anyway, I managed to get everything back to SCSI and remove the temporary IDE disk.
But all the fuss I had this weekend taught me a lesson: Everybody should have some sort of disaster recovery kit! Even though I had full backups available through my DAT streamer, they were of little use thanks to the fact that I had switched the FS.
So, to cut a long story short, I went looking for some way to do a bare-metal restore in a sensible way.
IMHO I found the perfect tool: mkCDrec. This ingenious piece of software creates a full recovery kit on multiple CDs, containing all the tools you specify, your current kernel, all your precious data and the kitchen sink as well! Best of all, it even does disk partitioning on freshly replaced disks, allowing for a quick and painless restore in case of hardware failure.
Apart from that, it also handles (remote!) streamer tapes and has the ability to clone harddisks using rsh.
This is way cool! :cool:
[ 01 May 2001: Message edited by: DrDebian ]