On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Jonathan B Bayer wrote: > Has anyone ever thought about doing with Bacula and Mindi what Mondo > and Mindi do? Mondo and Mindi are a complete disaster recovery > solution for one computer, in that a complete image is taken of the > system, stored in whatever media is selected, and by using Mindi > creates a bootable rescue CD which can then restore from the backup > media in a full bare-metal restore. > > I love Bacula, but my one problem with it is recovery after a > disaster. Right now I would first have to reinstall the OS, reinstall > Bacula, and then restore the files.
I've done a few bare-metal restores of machines OTHER than the bacula-server(s) and it's worked well. Restoring the server is a bit more involved as it's a bootstrapping job, but there are bare-metal restore kits buildable from the code base to do it. In an effort to avoid ever having to do a server rebuild, I run all disks other than Spool in Raid-1 and drive health checks in fairly paranoid mode plus keep enough spares to be able to transfer the drives into an identical chassis if need be. It's not proof against 'rm -rf /', but it should take care of any electronic failures. AB ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
