On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, bruce wrote: > hi... > > trying to find out what's the best/good app for doing a complete > backup/restore of a system. basically, i want to be able to take a > "snapshot" of a system and then store it. i need the "snapshot" to be able > to allow me to restore the server back to state it was in when the > "snapshot" was taken.... > > i'm not that concerned with the data that might be on a given hard dive, as > i am with being able to know that the restored environment is a duplicate of > what i had previously. > > it would actually be helpful to be able to make sure the base OS and the > supporting apps are properly captured as one part of the application, with > the other data/apps on the system being "captured" in a separate part of the > process. This kind of segmentation would actually allow us to restore a > machine to it's base config without needing to be concerned with the rest of > the apps that a user may have added to the machine. It would also provide a > method of restoring the other apps if we needed to.... > > we're willing to consider commercial apps, but we would prefer open source. > any suggestions would be appreciated.... > > thanks > > bruce > bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Mondo will create iso images of the entire server which can be burned to bootable CD's. -- Gerry "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
