William Hammond wrote:
I have a number of small OpenSuSE 10.3 Samba File Servers.
They have commercial software that does a good job of backing up. but, like most, not such a good job of restoring.
Especially if you need to do a bare metal recovery.
On some of these systems I keep an identical drive already set up so that if needed I can plug it in and do a data only restore.
I don't use or believe that strongly in mirroring or duplexing so I don't want to go there.
Question is: What are the easiest/best solutions for Disaster Recovery...?
One that a "Shop Owner" could perform with a little help.
As a shop owner, I can tell you that rsync, or the tools built on it like rsnapshot, are the only way to go in my opinion. If you don't mind writing a 1-5 line bash script containing the rsync command and adding the script to crontab, then do it that way. If you don't like the command line, then grab a copy of rsnapshot and just configure the package for your system. (it will then set up the rsync script and add the cron entry for you) Whatever you use, just keep a daily backup handy, either on a second machine (and offsite in case of fire). In the event of disaster, data restoration is a one button or one command deal. You can get rsnapshot and get the docs for it at: http://www.rsnapshot.org/ -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org