Quoting Erez Boym, from the post of Mon, 14 Oct: > Hi, > > What would be the way to backup an entire system ?
depends on your needs. how often you expect to use it, how expensive should the medias be, how many backups do you rotate, etc. you could do a full "ghost" with a tool called Partition Image, you can use the commercial tools from Norton and PowerQuest. you can rsync once in a while to a remote computer with cheap IDE disks, you can rsync to a local RAID of cheap IDE, you can backup to tapes with tools like AMANDA, you can backup to CDR/DVD-RAM with AMANDA+cdbackup, and there are many more options. then ofcourse there are the bigger enterprise solutions like backupExec, or lower-end commercial ones like BRU. bottom line: depends on your budget and needs. for what I read you described, here's what I think: 1. do a ghost of the server to a cheap disk, maybe using Partition Image (never tested it myself) 2. do a weekly full backup with rsync/tar (depending on the disk space you can afford) to a remote machine, and a daily "level 1" (read the manuals of tar and AMANDA for more scenario ideas). that was you can survive a full crash, or just rescue a single file if something gets deleted or changed. 3. if you need a snapshot system like in NetAppliance look at EVMS or LVM. if you prefer the EMC-style, look at the linux MD option with RAID1 disconnection tricks. (though I think EVMS does that too, and more inteligently) 4. B/U is not a small question in any way. RT a lot of FM. -- Finger lickin' good Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
