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тАО10-10-2009 12:55 AM
тАО10-10-2009 12:55 AM
Itanium RHEL5 system backup / restore from scratch
I wonder which would be the correct procedure to backup an Itanium server (lets say a rx7640) using dump (to local tape) and more important the procedure to restore this backup to a new formated disk (disaster recovery situation). I summarise the steps I would follow.
Backup:
1) make a note of the partitions of the system disk and /etc/fstab
2) make a tar backup of the /boot/efi partition.
3) Boot from RHEL5 1st CD in rescue mode without mounting the underlying OS (skip choice).
4) dump of / (root) partition to local tape.
Restore to a formated disk:
1) use of smart setup to recreate /boot/efi partition an HP Offline diagnostics partition (and copy Offline diagnostics to that partition)
1) Boot from RHEL5 1st CD in rescue mode (with network configured).
2) Recreate the / (root partition) and swap partitions using parted.
3) Label the / (root) partition (using e2label) and the swap partition (with mkswap -L) using the info provided from /etc/fstab.
4) ftp the tar backup to the /boot/efi partition and restore it.
5) mount root partition and restore / (root) partition from tape backup.
6) reboot
Is there something missing from the above procedures.
Please advise.
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тАО10-12-2009 10:35 PM
тАО10-12-2009 10:35 PM
Re: Itanium RHEL5 system backup / restore from scratch
And if true what are the correct steps?
Thanks and regards,
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тАО10-13-2009 04:18 AM
тАО10-13-2009 04:18 AM
Re: Itanium RHEL5 system backup / restore from scratch
The Mondo Mindi backup solution for this purpose would help.
Silju
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тАО10-13-2009 04:20 AM
тАО10-13-2009 04:20 AM
Re: Itanium RHEL5 system backup / restore from scratch
The follwing link can be a helpfull resource.
http://www.mondorescue.org/docs/mondorescue-howto.html
Regs
Silju
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тАО10-13-2009 04:42 AM
тАО10-13-2009 04:42 AM
Re: Itanium RHEL5 system backup / restore from scratch
Thank you for the advice. I've heard about mondo rescue but I would prefer to use OS utilities (linux rescue mode and dump/restore) for this purpose (disaster recovery of OS).
Thanks anyway,
Regards,