Re: Linux Bare Metal Restore

2004-04-30 Thread Lloyd Dieter
Check out Mondo: http://www.mondorescue.org The prerequisites are a pain, but it works fine once set up. Gives you sysback-like capability, and understands things like SW raid and LVM. -Lloyd On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:34:15 -0400 David E Ehresman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote thusly: > Anyone looki

Re: Linux Bare Metal Restore

2004-04-29 Thread Otto Schakenbos
we use a bootable linux cd (a customized "superrescue" cd) with a tsm client installed.. After booting you create the filesystems by hand using fdisk and mkyourfavoritefilesystem, mount, then start the restore from the tsm server. After this is done you have to install the bootloader and create a p

Re: Linux Bare Metal Restore

2004-04-29 Thread Graham Stewart
We're using MKCDREC http://mkcdrec.sourceforge.net/ It suits our purposes (identical Dell Servers running RedHat) well. It creates an .iso file which can be written to a bootable recovery CD containing compressed copies of the filesystems you specify. Filesystems are rebuilt by scripts run during

Linux Bare Metal Restore

2004-04-29 Thread David E Ehresman
Anyone looking at Cristie BMR for Linux? If so, what do you think? If not, what are you doing for Linux BMR? David Ehresman University of Louisville