From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 30 14: 6:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ghost.blacktrap.net (20-230.CampusNet.ucl.ac.be [130.104.20.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADE6937B401 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 14:06:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olinether@ghost.blacktrap.net) Received: (from olinether@localhost) by ghost.blacktrap.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f6UL6au61544 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 23:06:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olinether) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 23:06:36 +0200 From: OliNether To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Filesystem backup on CD-ROM Message-ID: <20010730230636.A61509@blacktrap.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: message text Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings , I have just finished to setup a FreeBSD server for a friend's society, and I will be gone for a while next month. Nobody there has the knowledge to maintain or do anything with it, so I would like to provide them with a way to restore the server to its config if something bad happened like a hd crash or something while I'm not there. This is necessary because there are many specific things on the server, like cyrus imapd with pam-mysql as auth, or a prog a friend wrote to monitor the services on the server, an apache with many different vhosts, a php interface to manage the databases related to the website, and much more, so a basic re-installation wouldn't be enough. They don't have any tape device available at the moment, nor any spare hard disk that could be used as mirror/backup device. The only thing that would be possible would be to burn the whole filesystem on CD-ROM on a weekly basis or something, and then write some script those people could use to restore it without having anything else to do to get it back up and working. Maybe a bootable cd would be needed also, or at least a bootable floppy to do the work and restore the whole filesystem from a backup on cd-rom. I looked at mkisofs in the ports, and also vnconfig, but I'm not sure those are the tools I need. Perhaps somebody wrote a prog to do this all, I don't know? I heard about Norton Ghost, but I don't think it can handle freebsd partitions the way I need, or at all. So I figured out I would ask here, I hope someone already had to do this kind of stuff and will be able to advice me. Thank you in advance... -- OliNether. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message