[CLUE-Tech] Disaster Recovery (was Linux laptop)

[jimintriglia at americanisp.net]

A while back, I picked up a copy of O'Reillys "Unix Backup and Recovery" which
covers various Unices and Linux backup/recovery strategies.

I believe it to be an excellent resource - check it out.

JimI.

> Disaster recovery is a very complicated issue and I would definatly be
> interested in hearing thoughts about mine or other peoples plans.
> 
> Brandon
> 
> 
> --- Cyberclops <Cyberclops at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
> > I use Libranet on a full sized computer, but I'm interested in the
> > same
> > thing in a sense.  I want to make a complete backup of my system that
> > I
> > can use to restore it.  I have a Plextor CD-burner on the machine.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Roger Frank wrote:
> > 
> > > Haven't had a laptop since I had a real job.  But I saw one surplus
> > > for $100 with 2G drive, 40 MB memory, Ethernet/modem card.  No CD
> > ROM,
> > > and a 75 MHz 486 for a CPU.  I thought it might be a good time to
> > > learn about Linux on laptops.
> > >
> > > I'm surprised at how well Linux runs on this little NEC Versa M/75.
> > > I did a floppy install just to get to where it could use the
> > > Ethernet card, and then did the rest of the (Debian) install
> > > over the network.  I'm using Blackbox as a window manager
> > > and it's quite zippy.  The screen is 800x600 color, but for my
> > > needs that's just fine.  I've already done some editing with
> > > nedit and I've compiled some Java programs.
> > >
> > > Now that it works - and it did take some work to get it going -
> > > I wish there were a way to do a partition dump thru the serial
> > port.
> > > I know partimage is excellent, but there is no second drive or
> > > second partition.  I'd like to be able to get the exact image of
> > > what's on the disk onto another machine as an image, and I'd
> > > like to be able to restore it easily.  I guess it's the Linux
> > > equivalent of Ghost that I'm looking for.  Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Roger Frank
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Jim Intriglia
IT Systems and Software Developer
www.JimIntriglia.com