Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:55:08 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: OliNether <olinether@blacktrap.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filesystem backup on CD-ROM Message-ID: <15205.58828.92259.535831@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <96350108@toto.iv>
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OliNether <olinether@blacktrap.net> types: > Greetings , > > I have just finished to setup a FreeBSD server for a friend's society, and I > will be gone for a while next month. Nobody there has the knowledge to > maintain or do anything with it, so I would like to provide them with a way > to restore the server to its config if something bad happened like a hd crash > or something while I'm not there. This is necessary because there are many > specific things on the server, like cyrus imapd with pam-mysql as auth, or a > prog a friend wrote to monitor the services on the server, an apache with many > different vhosts, a php interface to manage the databases related to the > website, and much more, so a basic re-installation wouldn't be enough. > They don't have any tape device available at the moment, nor any spare > hard disk that could be used as mirror/backup device. The only thing that > would be possible would be to burn the whole filesystem on CD-ROM on a weekly > basis or something, and then write some script those people could use to > restore it without having anything else to do to get it back up and working. > Maybe a bootable cd would be needed also, or at least a bootable floppy to > do the work and restore the whole filesystem from a backup on cd-rom. > I looked at mkisofs in the ports, and also vnconfig, but I'm not sure those > are the tools I need. Perhaps somebody wrote a prog to do this all, I don't > know? I heard about Norton Ghost, but I don't think it can handle freebsd > partitions the way I need, or at all. People have asked about that kind of CD thing before, but I don't know that anyone has actually done anything. Ghost works fine on FreeBSD partitions. It just image copies the partition, but that will work. However, you have to be running a DOS or Windows enviroment to do the backup as well as the restore. You also need a DOS disk big enough to back the thing up. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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