Re: Backup advice


On 23-May-07, at 9:23 PM, Doug Hardie wrote:

The criteria for selecting a backup approach is not the backup methodology but the restore methodology.

Excellent point.

Perhaps I'm asking the wrong question, so let me try it this way instead:

I'm looking for a backup solution that I can rely on in the event I have a catastrophic server failure. Ideally this backup would look and act much like a clone of the production system. In the worse case, I'd re-format the server array and copy the clone back to the server, setup the boot blocks, and that would be it.

Ideally this clone should be verifiable, meaning I should be able to verify it's integrity so that it's not going to let me down if I need it.

I'm thinking external USB hard drive of at least equal size to the server array size as far as hardware goes, but I'm lost as far as software goes.

Any advice appreciated.
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