Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 08:40:46 +1000 From: freebsd-list@tac-au.com To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Cc: tom@dwyers.ca Subject: Re: Disaster recovery Message-ID: <03050408404601.00254@forseti> In-Reply-To: <F971F67F7EB73A43A6DA0972AABFD45306A488@animas.soprisoffice.net> References: <F971F67F7EB73A43A6DA0972AABFD45306A488@animas.soprisoffice.net>
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To add to this, if you have two machines you could run the vrrpd to do the IP change for you. On Friday 02 May 2003 03:57, you wrote: > 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" > _______________________________________________ > 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" -- Cheers, Travers mailreader@optushome.com.au
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