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Re: [PLUG] Disaster Recovery Strategies
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What you really want is a Raid-5 controller with a hotswap chassis for your
drives. 3Ware makes excellent hardware with linux source drivers as well.
It's expensive, but if you want true single-drive-failure-zero-downtime
operation, it's the way to go, IMHO. Raid5 has saved my butt on more than
one occasion.
E
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Richardson" <dgr24@drexel.edu>
To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 11:01 AM
Subject: [PLUG] Disaster Recovery Strategies
> I have a linux machine that I would like to be able to completely
> restore to its current configuration in the event of a hard drive
> failure. I'd like to be able to just pop in a new hard drive, and have
> it magically work like the old one without the need to manually install
> or configure software.
>
> I was thinking about just using dd to copy the entire hard drive on the
> currently working machine to a file and then if I ever need to put in a
> new drive just using dd to write the contents of the old drive onto the
> new drive. Is it a problem if the new drive is a different size than
> the old? Or does anyone have a suggest of a better way?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
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