 | | | Hard drive failure recovery | Hard drive failure recovery 2005-03-16 - By Hambleton, John S.
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Hello:
Wonder if some experienced RedHat admins can give me some advice.
We have a small departmental IBM eServer with three 18gb hard drives
(this small machine can hold only three):
sda1: /boot ext3
sda2: /swap
sda3: / ext3
sdb1: /usr ext3
sdb2: /home ext3
sdc1: /var ext3
sdc2: /tmp ext3
The OS is RHL release 3 Taroon update 4. Grub is the bootloader.
These drives have not been mirrored. Backup is to an IBM LTO tape drive
with "tar". This LTO device requires IBM drivers that are not compatible
with the
most recent kernel for this OS.
My question is what might a more experienced admin do to ensure quick
recovery on this particular system should a hard drive ever fail? Is taking
a snapshot of each hard drive with Norton Ghost an option? A different
backup methodology? Other ideas?
Many thanks!
JH
+ John S. "Dilbert" Hambleton
+ Olson Library
+ Northern Michigan University
+ Marquette Michigan 49855
+
+ Phone: 906-227-2741
+ E-Mail: JHAMBLET@(protected)
+
+ Ab alio expectes, alteri quod feceris.
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