On Saturday 30 July 2005 12:24 pm, Jarry wrote: > Hi, > > I am now looking for some sort of backup & restore solution which would > help me to get my gentoo-server up and running after fatal disk failure. > > I want to burn at regular intervals compressed partition images of disk > on internal dvd/rw/ram (4.5 GB should be enough for archiving the whole > disk, without /home partition). > > But what I also need is fast and reliable restore function, for the case > that all I have is a new replacement-disk, gentoo installation cd, and > dvd/rw/ram with archived partition images (+ restore sw on floppy). > Could you recommend me some software? I checked software in app-backup, > but there is nothing about quick & easy restoring... > > Jarry
Well, what I've been thinking about doing on my system is getting a removable 5.2" hot-swappable drive bay and then buying a 250GB (or bigger) EIDE drive to stick in the bay. Then create a few partitions on the drive and use rsync in cron.daily to keep a daily backup. After its done, just have it umount the drive and I would always be able to remove it from the computer and even be able to attach it to my other computer for another backup of its files. Thats just what I've been thinking, I'm sure others have better ways to keep backups. -- Chris Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 12:51:48 up 6 days, 4:25, 9 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.03 -- [email protected] mailing list
