 | | | Hard drive failure recovery | Hard drive failure recovery 2005-03-16 - By Ed Wilts
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:19:15PM -0500, Hambleton, John S. wrote:
> 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?
Norton Ghost is not really an option but Mondo Rescue might be. If you
have access to extra space on an NFS-mounted volume, you can generate
fully restorable ISOs and leave them on the server. If you experience a
failure, burn the ISOs to CD, boot from them and let Mondo do the full
restore for you. Mondo will generate fully bootable CDs (or DVDs if you
have the hardware) and can handle both individual and full-volume
restores. It will repartition the replacement drives and if you decide
to replace a failed drive with a different size, it can handle that too.
http://www.mondorescue.org
There are many other backup options but it's the "bare metal" restore
that is most likely to make your life difficult and is where Mondo
Rescue can really help.
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