http://relax-and-recover.org/

Just found this when I was looking for a "bare-metal" backup solution for
our critical Linux servers (and I didn't want to pay $500/server to
Unitrends for their bare-metal Linux backup.)

We already have a full backup system in place for our virtual machines, but
the physical servers just have filesystem-level backup, not really a "bare
metal" backup that we could use to restore the entire system, in the case
of a failed hard drive or something.

I got Relax and Recover (REAR) installed on a little test CentOS box and it
is a pretty sweet backup system.  I can do a full restore of the server
from the original hard drive (via a separate bootloader that REAR installs)
or by booting up from a CD that REAR creates whenever a backup job runs.

I've done test restores onto the original hard disk, onto a brand new,
slightly larger hard disk, and even restored the original physical machine
backup onto a VMware virtual machine, which worked perfectly.

Anyone else use this system?  Any input on it?  I'm just getting my feet
wet with it, but I really like what I see.

Chris

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