On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, John J. Foster wrote: > Users have work to do. Let's see, what's my SAMBA configuration? And > those SQL databases looked like what? How quickly could you bring a > system with many users back online _and_ functional? > > If you are in a position of being responsible for thoses entities, you > had better have your ass covered. That's what I'm trying to do.
Its hard to give specifics because there's a lot of things that can go wrong. How to recover from a situation depends very much on the situation and what went wrong. But basically you will need to backup data and configs. We use flexbackup and automysqlbackup for making backups to a "backup" server (basically another server will tons of disk storage. You will want to backup things like /etc and/or /home). If you have enough disk space you could backup the entire machine if you like. As far as recovery goes, you will want to make sure you have boot CDs nearby which you can successfully boot off, mount the file-system you want to restore and pull the data off the backup server. If you can backup the whole machine, then you just need to restore from the last backup obviously. If your disk is fried and you're building a new disk, you just need to redo the partitions, mount them, restore data and setup the bootloader on the new disk. How fast you recover a machine depends on how much you have prepared for it. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
