Author: "Boniforti Flavio" <flavio AT piramide DOT ch>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 14:02:53 +0200
Hello list... I was wondering if I may be doing some sort of "bare metal restore" of a Linux server, if I'd be backing it up *completely* on my backuppc server. What do you think? How may I eventuall
Theoretically, a "bare-metal" restore should be possible by backing up the entire filesystem. The restore procedure to a new piece of bare-metal would be: 1. Boot from rescue media 2. Partition the n
Author: "Pedro M. S. Oliveira" <pmsoliveira AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 14:09:24 +0100
Some time ago i wrote about thins in my blog, check it out: http://www.linux-geex.com/?s=backuppc&x=0&y=0#/?p=163 Cheers, Pedro -- -- Pedro M. S. Oliveira IT Consultant Email: pmsoliveira AT gmail DO
Flavio, What I do is use BackupPC for my quick resotres and use a product called BackupEdge (www.microlite.com) for my bare metal restores. The cost is well worth the less aggravation when things fai
Author: "Tyler J. Wagner" <tyler AT tolaris DOT com>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 15:12:18 +0100
I've done lots of bare metal restores with Bacula, BackupPC, and rsync. The process is simple: 1. Install base OS from install media 2. Install backup client (bacula-fd or rsync) 3. Restore The only
Author: "Boniforti Flavio" <flavio AT piramide DOT ch>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 16:14:16 +0200
Hy there... I'm not into *buying* a new piece of software, instead I'd really like to achieve "bare metal restore" with opensource software. Kind regards, Flavio Boniforti PIRAMIDE INFORMATICA SAGL V
Flavio, That is fine, whatever floats your boat. ;-) I have small systems and am by myself so this works for me. John J. Boris, Sr. JEN-A-SyS Administrator Archdiocese of Philadelphia 222 North 17th
Author: "Boniforti Flavio" <flavio AT piramide DOT ch>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 16:41:16 +0200
Hello Joshua [cut] I liked your explanation... ;-) I think I'll be doing *full* backuppc backup of my server as a first step to have constant backups. My thouhgts are related to eventually recovering
Author: "Boniforti Flavio" <flavio AT piramide DOT ch>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 16:45:14 +0200
Hy Pedro, I read through your post, and it seems interesting and feasable (reading without doing is much more complicated as it may seem when doing it)... Can you thus confirm that your suggested way
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 09:49:53 -0500
If you know your way around fdisk, mke2fs, and grub, you can boot about any 'live' CD or install disk with rescue mode that lets you bring up the network on the replacement machine. Then you can make
Author: "Boniforti Flavio" <flavio AT piramide DOT ch>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 16:59:50 +0200
Hello Les, [cut] That's the *perfect and precise* way of doing that... I already know clonezilla, but how would I automate this piece of software to do complete images of my running server? Never kne
I would like to just clarify why I do it this way. When I first took this job we did just that. get out the OS disks, rebuild the File Systems, then do a restore from the tapes. It took us an entire
I read through your post, and it seems interesting and feasable (reading without doing is much more complicated as it may seem when doing it)... Can you thus confirm that your suggested way of recov
Author: "Pedro M. S. Oliveira" <pmsoliveira AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 16:23:05 +0100
Hi Flavio, The info in the post is feasible and in my opinion easy to do. I've used it for several times, depending on the recover system (distro) you use the difficulty may increase, usually i use a
The best way to make sure your OS installs are repeatable and non-deterministic is to script them. Here we use RHEL so we install machines via kickstart. Previously I've used wrapper scripts to 'sysi
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 10:34:06 -0500
Basically, if you know how you would restore with tar, you can do the same with the BackupPC_tarCreate output. I don't know how to automate it, but I'm sure it would be possible if you had an alterna
For what it might be worth, I will add my two cents . . . . . I have a very simplistic view of the backup process. First, I have BackupPC running for weekly full backups and nightly incremental backu
Author: Stefan Peter <s_peter AT swissonline DOT ch>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 19:45:49 +0200
Am 10.05.2010 16:41, schrieb Boniforti Flavio: Under Debian, a '$sshPath -q -x -l root $host /usr/bin/dpkg --get-selections >/root/selections.txt' in the DumpPreUserCmd works wonders. Other package m
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 13:16:39 -0500
This is up to the distribution's package manager. Fedora/RH/Centos/SuSE use rpm, so if you've backed up the rpm database you'll have it in the restore (and you have to be sure that you've backed up e
Author: "Marcelino Mata" <mmata AT multimatic DOT com>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 14:22:25 -0400
It has been a few years since I have used Mondo but I think it is close to what your asking for. http://www.mondorescue.org/ You can create cron job which creates regular images of the server on loca