[PLUG] Backup over network...

[drew wymore]

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:49 PM, drew wymore <drew.wymore at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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-
>

Perhaps yet another FOSS option http://www.clonezilla.org/

Drew-