[PLUG] Backup over network...

drew wymore drew.wymore at gmail.com
Sun May 16 05:49:47 UTC 2010


On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Michael C. Robinson
<plug_1 at robinson-west.com> wrote:
>> Since you have a network with storage, perhaps setting up Samba and
>> using Windows built in backup facilities to store the image that is
>> created on the network? Maybe that would be a viable solution given my
>> understanding of your network. If you can provide additional details
>> about exactly how things are laid out specifically in relation to this
>> particular task then we might be able to offer better tips and
>> suggestions.
>>
>> Drew-
>
> Sorry, I didn't know what the acronym meant.  I tried googling, but the
> information I'm getting appears to be very old.  I'm trying to build a
> backup system via network that allows me to do bare metal recovery.
> I.E., Windows 7 gets trashed and as soon as a new hard drive that
> works is put in, it is time to restore the last known good copy.
>
> Notice I'm not saying reinstall, but restore.  In order to restore,
> potentially to a new hard drive of equal or greater size, there is
> a need to replace the boot sector and all the data.  The backup
> system isn't just being set up for Windows, my personal system
> runs Fedora.  I'd like to support backing up my brother's Sunflower
> G3 Mac as well running Mac OSX 10.3 I believe.
>
> Right now, I'm trying to get my level 0 raid to persist across reboots.
> I have a terabyte decimal of storage using two WD PATA 500G hard drives,
> which is about 900 gigs binary.  Last time I rebooted, the hard drives
> in the raid volume came up as having no superblock.
>
> I probably will have to google for this, but off hand, does anyone know
> if a terabyte exceeds what ext3 can handle for a single filesystem?
>
> I'm running CentOS 5.5 on the server.
>
> Using dd to create an image is probably not the way to go even for
> Windows, but I'm not sure if I can trust Linux's NTFS support.  I
> am open to better ways to do a backup, but right now I'm in the can
> I keep the data storage volume stable across reboots and can I
> support all of the different systems stage.
>
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This might be a better option that dd'ing the drive which seems rather
ugly (but I get why you're doing it)

http://www.openfiler.com/ or similar. Once I have the funds to build
up a backup box I'm going with something like this. I'm using a cheap
Netgear SAN right now.

Drew-



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