interested to know the "right" way to backup a box to minimize downtime in case of a crash

From: Steve (steve_at_digitalbluesky.net)
Date: 03/21/05

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    Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:57:40 -0500
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    I have a home network that consists of a couple winXP workstations, one
    shuttle cube server running freebsd 5.3 for hosting some webpages and email
    (2.4 gig celeron, 512 meg ram, 40 gig hard drive) and an old gateway P75
    running freebsd 5.3 that runs samba. I use that gateway box to be the
    network backup device. All the computers are connected to a linksys router
    (the shuttle cube is dmz'd). Right now I do a nightly tar.gz of the
    home,var and etc directory on the shuttle cube to the gateway box. In
    about a month I'll be bringing home an IBM 205VL server (850 celeron, 256
    meg ram and two 40 gig hard drives) to replace the gateway box.

    I would like to know, in general, how people would configure that IBM
    server to do a little more than just store simple backups from the shuttle
    cube server. Really I would like a situation where if the shuttle cube
    died, I could just dmz the IBM box to serve the webpages and email that the
    shuttle cube does. It's not a "mission critical" situation, but I just
    want to be able to come home from work the night of a failure and without
    alot of work, swap the boxes.

    Steve Bopple
    www.digitalbluesky.net

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