Linux recovery question

[TJ_16]

We currently tar up our root file system disk and ship it off to a NAS server for recovery type situations.

Was wondering if there was a better tool than tar?

This would be for RedHat AS 2.1 and 3.0.

[Steven E. Protter]

http://www.mondorescue.org

Also, If you don't mind the server going off line I boot the box off a Windows 98/Me cd and then use Symanntec ghost to disk image via an Intel NIC card to another hard disk on the network.

Both tools have been tested by me, though there has been no cause to use them in production.

SEP

[Huc_1]

rsync with ssh can be used instead of tar this is on most distribution I have seen.
Mondo is also a good choise, there is also www.sysrsccd.org a bootable live cd with many tools for disk partitionning and back/restore on this this there is partimage ( have a look at www.partimage.org ).

Partimage allows you to save your partion to a partition image (also over the net to other system)

Hope this helps.

Jean-Pierre

[Florian Heigl (new acc)]

TJ,

a friend of mine wrote something like Norton Ghost for UNIX root disk backups.

This would be a professional add-on to the tar backup for Disaster Recoveries
http://rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/g4u/

Also, the (tape or file) backup utility bacula comes with a linux emergency recovery bootdisk.
see
http://www.bacula.org on that.

[TJ_16]

Thanks for all the replies, but none of these tools are as simple as tar.

Will keep looking, but don't want to take up time here on the forum with this.