[PLUG] Mirroring and backup - recommendations?

[Lynn Yuan]

Two similar programs:

mkCDrec
http://mkcdrec.ota.be/project/index.html

and

Mondo
http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/

Anyone use either of these programs on RH6.2 kernel
2.2.19?




--- Keith Morse <kgmorse at mpcu.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 12 May 2002, 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
> 
> 
> One thing I've heard mentioned on RedHat's mailling
> list is something 
> called "mondo".  Created by Hugo Rabsom, I think. 
> Sorry, don't have the 
> web site handy.
> 
> 
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