[PLUG] Mirroring and backup - recommendations?

D. Cooper Stevenson cooper at linux-enterprise.net
Mon May 13 05:52:20 UTC 2002


Greg;

Linux Volume Manager Howto:

http://www.linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/LVM-HOWTO.html

-Cooper

On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 09:47:21PM -0700, Greg Long wrote:
> After a recent scare with having to run e2fsck manually on our server
> after a unclean unmount, I started thinking more seriously about
> mirroring and automatic scheduled backups, and other such redundancy.
> 
> Our server runs a fairly stock Redhat 7.2 on a 1ghz AMD Duron 256mb
> system with a 60gb IDE HD available. At my disposal is a Intel Pentium
> 233 system with 128mb RAM and a 10gb UDE HD.  the 10gb drive should be
> plenty to essentially mirror the main system, with the exception of a
> sizable chunk of  files that have been made available for FTP transfer
> that would not have to be mirrored as they are easily replaceable.
> 
> I realize that not ALL files should be mirrored as the hardware is
> different (although both can run i386 Redhat)
> 
> SO....my basic question is, what utilites are available and recommended
> for this sort of mirroring?
> 
> Although I do not have a tape backup, it would be nice to periodically
> take a snapshot of the system (except for the sizable file transfer
> library) and split that into 700mb chunks for manually burning to CD
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Greg Long
> 
> 
> 
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