FW: [SLE] Disaster Recover Preparation -- How to do it?
1) I installed Storix Desktop and did a full system backup. 2) I installed BackupEdge. Trying to create a full system backup corrupted my hard-drive (Couldn't even boot up!). 3) I said, ok, lets give the Storix software a chance to recover my system. 4) Storix recovered it, but I had no keyboard and no mouse unless I booted up with the SuSE Installation CD. My Samba wouldn't come up and I couldn't get a network connection. 5) I restored my machine with YaST and have been trying to re-install the ton of security patches that have come out. For some reason, SuSE doesn't completely restore these (I believe it's because of some YOU patches that came out along the way). 6) I keep getting errors trying to recover. I tried to eliminate the packages that were failing so I could try to only hit the server with the few that remained. 7) I guess there were some dependencies that I wasn't aware of, so that trashed my system again. Back to step 5) and start over. 8) I back to trying to restore my packages. Since I don't know what the hell the dependencies are, I have to do all each time (I'm only doing one each day, overnight, to try not to impact the folks who are working 9.3 problems). Greg Wallace
On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 23:13 -0800, Greg Wallace wrote:
1) I installed Storix Desktop and did a full system backup. 2) I installed BackupEdge. Trying to create a full system backup corrupted my hard-drive (Couldn't even boot up!).
What are you backing up to, tape, disk file? I used BackupEdge for many years without problem. Sounds like you had a full harddrive. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
On Thursday, April 28, 2005 @ 3:40 AM, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 23:13 -0800, Greg Wallace wrote:
1) I installed Storix Desktop and did a full system backup. 2) I installed BackupEdge. Trying to create a full system backup corrupted my hard-drive (Couldn't even boot up!).
What are you backing up to, tape, disk file? I used BackupEdge for many years without problem. Sounds like you had a full harddrive.
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
"The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
Ken: Yes, I was trying to back up to a USB connected hard drive in a caddy. It was formatted as EXT2. It actually took 2 or 3 tries at backup before my system failed. The first few times, it said the backup was successful, but I got a failure during the verify process. Apparently, it catalogues the backup data during the verify, so that meant that when I went to look at the USB drive, there were just a few high level entries (I believe one file and one directory), but no backup data there. I was trying to work through that issue with the BackupEdge tech support. Then, on another stab at a backup, it actually seemed to do nothing at all. When I powered down and re-started the first time following that failure, that my system wouldn't even boot. I have no idea what that backup hosed, but I certainly didn't try to back up to a different device (i. e., my internal drive). Trying to backup up to an external disk shouldn't corrupt your internal disk. I can't imagine what BackupEDGE did. Thanks, Greg Wallace
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