A general rsync question -> bare-metal restore

[Peter M. Abraham]

Greetings Bogart:

Check out http://www.r1soft.com/ 

Their software works on various flavors of Linux and Windows; we use it to
backup all of our Dell PowerEdge servers.

Thank you.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-
> bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Bogart Salzberg
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 1:19 PM
> To: linux-poweredge at dell.com
> Subject: Re: A general rsync question -> bare-metal restore
> 
> Thanks, Jim.
> 
> I am planning to pull the daily snapshot from the data center to my
> office with rsync (via dirvish). The USB drive would be hooked up to
> my development box here in the office. Then if I ever needed a bare-
> metal restore I could use a Mondo DVD for the OS and then mount the
> USB drive to restore files. The SC1435's at the data center have DVD-
> ROM and USB 2.0 standard.
> 
> I was also vaguely considering mirroring the whole 250GB to a spare
> hard drive at the office. Then I could just drop it in to restore.
> The challenge would be ensuring the mirror remains in a known-good
> state. Also it would take two hours to re-sync the RAID, which
> doesn't offer a compelling advantage time-wise.
> 
> Anybody else have any brilliant ideas for bare-metal restore?
> 
> Bogart