On 09/26 12:58 , Les Mikesell wrote:
> Do you keep something that formally tracks the
> lvm/mdraid/partition/filesystem layout on all of the machines you back
> up so you know what you need to re-create?   

No, the partition layouts are pretty simple (generally a root partition of
10-30GB, plus 2-4GB swap, plus a data partition of whatever disk remains for
whatever this machine is dedicated to [/var/lib/backuppc for a backup
server, /var/www for a webserver, /var/lib/mysql for a MySQL server, etc]),
and I get the mount points from /etc/fstab. I can do it pretty quickly (like
5 minutes or less) but your point is well taken that something to capture
partition sizes and automate the restore of them might be a good addition.

Years ago I worked on Mondo Rescue (http://www.mondorescue.com/) but that
was in the pre-1.0 days I think and any code I contributed to it has long
since been replaced. Since learning about BackupPC I no longer felt a need
for Mondo (tho there might be a use for Mindi, the minimalist restore tool
which is part of it).

I have not looked at 'rear'.

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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