Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
FWIW, one of the major steps that I took as a part of my Bacula 2.0.3 "do-over" was to install the director in a virtual machine under VMware ESX. This makes the director completely hardware- agnostic, and VMware provides options for taking snapshots of running virtual servers and backing up images of the virtual hard disks on the fly. (Since we're virtualizing everything else for DR purposes anyway, it seems like a no-brainer to do the Bacula director/database virtually as well.) I'm going to make the catalog backup job also trigger a VM snapshot/copy/export of the director one of these days, which will make it just about as disaster-proof as I can get it..... -Arthur ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arthur Emerson III Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator InterNIC: AE81 Mount Saint Mary College MaBell: (845) 561-0800 Ext. 3109 330 Powell Ave. Fax: (845) 562-6762 Newburgh, NY 12550 SneakerNet: Aquinas Hall Room 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
