 | | | Hard drive failure recovery | Hard drive failure recovery 2005-03-16 - By Joshua Jensen
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 06:07:24PM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote:
> 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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> Ed Wilts, RHCE
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