On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 09:23:35AM +0100, Jan Stifter wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:02:20 -0300, "Bruno Gimenes Pereti" > <pereti@ump.edu.br> wrote: [...] > >I installed a redhat 7.1 for internet services and now I'm studing the best > >way to implement a backup process. I need the fastest way to put the server > >up something happens. I could put another machine mirroring the entire disk > >and substitute the server just changing the IP of the second server. > >Could I use rsync? Any sugestion? rsync is one possibility. Another one could be to write some scripts which do a tar cvf backup.tar /bin /boot /dev /etc /usr [...] (don`t forget to _exclude_ proc from your backup); later on a bzip2 -9 backup.tar and then copy the files via scp on another system. With best regards Hans -- Work: Consultant with Linux Consulting Europe <h.picht@lnxce.net> http://www.lnxce.net Vogelhecke 2 D - 35447 Reiskirchen Tel: +491751629201 Fax: +49640862649 Germany Private: hans@picht.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message.