I have a RH Linux 8.0 server used to filter email for spam and virues. It receives email, filters it through SpamAssassin and ClamAV and then relays the email to our Exchange server. The email is only on the server for a few seconds. This server is critical and if it were to fail, I would have to get it working again pronto. I don't care about a handful of emails lost, but reinstalling Red Hat, SpamAssassin, Clam AV, MIMEDefang, etc. is a lot of work. So, I'm looking for some "disaster recovery" solution to cover the possibility that the hard drive fails. I would want to be able to replace the hard drive, quickly restore the last image and put the server back on-line. Can anyone recommend a simple, inexpensive solution that would allow me to image the hard drive periodically and quickly restore to a replacement hard drive? I'm thinking that the backup media would probably be CD-ROM (the entire installation is only about 800MB uncompressed). I've used MicroLite's BackupEdge software on Unix/Linux servers in the past and it is phenomonal for doing a "one-button" recovery. However, BackupEdge is too expensive for this application. Also, I don't know that the replacement disk drive would be identical to the failed drive and I don't know how BackupEdge handles restoring to a larger drive. Can anyone recommend a more cost-effective backup solution that can backup to CD-ROM and has a "one-button" restore capability? I may just buy two identical disk drives, install to one, image to the other and then remove and store the "spare" drive. Can anyone recommend disk imaging software for this purpose? I've looked at Ghost, but it doesn't handle symbolic links and that would be a problem. Thanks for your thoughts and suggestions! Ken Morley -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
