Re: Disaster Recovery Tool

[Vijay Vikram <karpagamekapali () gmail com>]

One more addition to what Andreas said,

info available at 

http://www.finaldata.co.uk/

http://www.mimix.com/technology/echostreamfs.asp

regards
Vijay 



http://www.mimix.com/technology/echostreamfs.asp


On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:01:45 +0100, Andreas Putzo
<andreas () inferno nadir org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wednesday 23 February 2005 17:32, RichardR wrote:
>
> > I am actually trying to find out a disaster recovery tool under GPL
> > for Linux, that could archive or snapshot my updated and armored
> > configuration distro in a machine. so then I could use this archive
> > pattern to be restored on boot (standalone) to other machines exactly
> > with the same hardware configs.
>
> You may take a look at FAI (Fully Automatic Installation)[1].
> With fai, you configure your updated, armored, well working machine
> before the installation. In case of a disaster, you simply reinstall
> without any interaction. Fai is even capable, to leave a partition
> untouched.
> Of course, variable data needs to be backed up as usual, but you can
> easily integrate a class RESTORE into fai, which will restore your data
> right back to the correct place.
> Crashed machines will be back at work within 20 minutes :)
>
> regards,
>
> Andreas
>
> [1] http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/