Do you have a backup tape drive on your system? If so, you can use the dump/restore program to dump your filesystems to tape. You can do this in single use mode to so that you can guarantee that you have a fixed snapshot and not a roving one. This is what I do for native backups. Note: If you had another "big drive", then you can create an image backup such as: dump -0 -f / | (cd mybackupdrive; restore -r -f -) The "0" above is a full backup. I have not checked but it used to be that if a -C option was used, the dump/restore can be "portable" - but this needs to be checked. Most dump/restores are machine specific. IT Professionals of course use the commerical ones such as Backup Exec (Veritas) or Cheyene. The problem with tar or cpio or other similar programs is that it cannot backup and restore devices and databases based on raw partitions but with Linux (Fedora) I am not sure how much this has changed or if it can actually be done. Check your mileage and make sure you TEST the restore before committing yourself on a dead-end. My $0.02 :-) Dan -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Welty, Richard Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 9:48 AM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: RE: Backup solutions? Jon D. Slater writes: >I don't need any archival on either machine. My primary concern is hard >disk failure. > so the >only backups would be of /home and the mySQL db's. then you need to have a script that dumps the MySQL dbs and rsync/rcp/rwhatever the resulting dump file. it's good to then try and load up the databases on the new system to prove to yourself that you know how to do that. (MySQL dumps can be annoying to load.) if hard drive failure is the dominant concern, you may wish to consider software raid, or perhaps going with one of the newer S-ATA RAID controllers. of course, when the motherboard goes, this won't help much. it really helps to play out all the hardware failure scenarios in your head and work out your risk tolerance for each one. richard -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.4/146 - Release Date: 10/21/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.12.4/146 - Release Date: 10/21/2005
