Re: Disaster Recovery Tool

From: Andreas Putzo (andreas_at_inferno.nadir.org)
Date: 02/24/05

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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:01:45 +0100

    Hi,

    On Wednesday 23 February 2005 17:32, RichardR wrote:

    > I am actually trying to find out a disaster recovery tool under GPL
    > for Linux, that could archive or snapshot my updated and armored
    > configuration distro in a machine. so then I could use this archive
    > pattern to be restored on boot (standalone) to other machines exactly
    > with the same hardware configs.

    You may take a look at FAI (Fully Automatic Installation)[1].
    With fai, you configure your updated, armored, well working machine
    before the installation. In case of a disaster, you simply reinstall
    without any interaction. Fai is even capable, to leave a partition
    untouched.
    Of course, variable data needs to be backed up as usual, but you can
    easily integrate a class RESTORE into fai, which will restore your data
    right back to the correct place.
    Crashed machines will be back at work within 20 minutes :)

    regards,

    Andreas

    [1] http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/

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