[nzlug] remote backup/drive image solutions

[David Hawke]

Jack Pivac wrote:
> While we're on the discussion of effective backup solutions, what
> about using something like PartImage [1] (best ghost alternative I
> could find) to create images of your disks/partitions.
> If you have a catastrophic disk failure just reclone another drive
> from your backup image, and fill in any of the blanks with your latest
> incremental backup. Will take slightly longer than a RAID 1 recovery,
> but dont have the issues and additional cost that RAID brings.
>
> Any holes in my logic?
> Something better than PartImage?
>
For an automated solution - take a look at BackupPC

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

David H

> Also, if you have a backup box sitting in the cupboard not being used
> often, what can you run on that to confirm integrity of its own
> data/hardware?
> If it silently fails one day then later on down the track your desktop
> fails as well, only to now discover you have issues with your backup...
>
> [1] http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page
>
> -Jack
>
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