I want to say that I'm not knocking Dar or any other solution... From my experience mondorescue was a nice fit for what I needed. Wanted the OP to have all the options. Since some other issues came up about mondo, I thought I'd give a chance for someone that knows more that me (of which there are allot) to respond. B-) On Monday 20 December 2004 01:34 pm, Michael W Cocke wrote:
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:00:50 -0700, you wrote:
The point of mondo rescue is disaster recovery.
If you use rsync or other backups to copy data, and the entire server goes down, then you have to re-build the server to the point where you can restore from the rsync drive or whateve other backup device (tape) etc. you do you incrementles with.
I use mondo for production. I distribute machines, so when I have the same hardware and software (server) setup I want to duplicate, I build the server the way I want it and do a mondo rescue to make it easy to duplicate from then on. Would work the same way for disaster recovery.
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And what do you do when you cannot replace a system with the exact same configuration? In my experience, you need to reinstall linux and then restore the data... Bare metal restore is a nice theory, but it has a bad record of colliding with reality. I have yet to see one work - including Mondo, which I did try to use until it failed to function.
Mike-
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