From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 1 10:59:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C33C037B401 for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 10:59:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imail.sopris.net (imail.sopris.net [216.237.72.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2580643F3F for ; Thu, 1 May 2003 10:59:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dale@sopris.net) Received: from AHRENS ([216.237.74.2]) by imail.sopris.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h41Hxgpi025724; Thu, 1 May 2003 11:59:42 -0600 (MDT) From: "Dale Ahrens" To: "'Thomas Dwyer'" , Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 11:57:46 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: RE: Disaster recovery X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 17:59:45 -0000 If funds permit, have a completely redundant FreeBSD machine standing by. Use cron and rsync to periodically copy data files over to the secondary machine. If the primary machine fails, simply change the IP number of the secondary machine to that of the primary, and viola, you are back online. Of course you will lose any emails or web data that has changed since the last rsync, but you lose data anyway if you have to get it off a tap. Any databases will need a "point of failure" recovery scheme. Also, you may want to put a tape drive in the secondary machine and backup the rsync'd data to the tape. This removes the tape backup task from your primary machine. Dale Ahrens Chief Technology Officer Sopris Surfers, Inc. 970-963-7873 dale@sopris.net www.sopris.net -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Thomas Dwyer Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 8:46 AM To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Disaster recovery Hello We are in the final stages of a migration from Win2k to FreeBSD for Web Server and Email. Everything is ready for the big switchover. I would like some advice on disaster recovery planning. What to use for remote backup (tar?). And with a .tar file, is it possible to resore the /usr partition over top of a clean FreeBSD install .. etc Thanks _______________________________________________ freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"