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Re: [opensuse] Fault tolerance in Linux Disk I/O
- From: Kenneth Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:29:23 -0500
- Message-id: <1162488563.13090.14.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 00:46 +1000, Intrusion Detection Account 000
wrote:
> Dear Kenneth,
>
> Thank you very much for the help abd assistance in recommending
> Microlite BackupEdge.
>
> I found another sophisticated application 'cpio' however due to its
> lack of GUI and complex switchers and syntax - this is of likke help
> right now
I have very little knowledge when it comes to using cpio. If I knew more
about programming I might attempt writing a gui for it, but a programmer
I am not. This is a hint to others on the list that may have the ability
and time, there are many such programs without a gui that keep people
from migrating to linux.
>
> If you have the time, perhaps in a private email are you able to shed
> some light on the above win a private email.
>
> It was a difficult ask and only probable a few would understand fault
> tolerance.
>
> At other times I have buck copies my working PC to an NFS Drive and
> similar things have happened as not even Konqueror seems not to have a
> verify option and things sometimes happen.
>
One of the things I really liked about using BackupEdge was the ability
to do a total restore in case a harddrive went bad. BackupEdge provides
a way to boot from the backup media and restore everything. And with it
doing backup verification you could be much assured ( not guaranteed )
that you had a reliable backup to work with.
Another program you might look into using is tar ( a version that is
supposed to work with ACL's is star ). You could create a tar file that
can be burned to DVD and used for restores. Another is mondo/mindi for
backups/restores. Search in google for more info on mondoarchive.
Also lets keep this on the list as others may benefit from this thread
and others might correct me if I give faulty info.
Also please refrain from top-posting and add you comments to the
appropriate place like I just did.
--
Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
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wrote:
> Dear Kenneth,
>
> Thank you very much for the help abd assistance in recommending
> Microlite BackupEdge.
>
> I found another sophisticated application 'cpio' however due to its
> lack of GUI and complex switchers and syntax - this is of likke help
> right now
I have very little knowledge when it comes to using cpio. If I knew more
about programming I might attempt writing a gui for it, but a programmer
I am not. This is a hint to others on the list that may have the ability
and time, there are many such programs without a gui that keep people
from migrating to linux.
>
> If you have the time, perhaps in a private email are you able to shed
> some light on the above win a private email.
>
> It was a difficult ask and only probable a few would understand fault
> tolerance.
>
> At other times I have buck copies my working PC to an NFS Drive and
> similar things have happened as not even Konqueror seems not to have a
> verify option and things sometimes happen.
>
One of the things I really liked about using BackupEdge was the ability
to do a total restore in case a harddrive went bad. BackupEdge provides
a way to boot from the backup media and restore everything. And with it
doing backup verification you could be much assured ( not guaranteed )
that you had a reliable backup to work with.
Another program you might look into using is tar ( a version that is
supposed to work with ACL's is star ). You could create a tar file that
can be burned to DVD and used for restores. Another is mondo/mindi for
backups/restores. Search in google for more info on mondoarchive.
Also lets keep this on the list as others may benefit from this thread
and others might correct me if I give faulty info.
Also please refrain from top-posting and add you comments to the
appropriate place like I just did.
--
Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
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