RE: [cobalt-users] Disaster recovery

[Reinoud van Leeuwen <rvanleeuwen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Reinoud, re your message below:
> 
>     "Message: 11
>     From: Reinoud van Leeuwen <rvanleeuwen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     To: "'cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'"
>     Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 11:47:25 +0100
>     Subject: [cobalt-users] Disaster recovery
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     Since I just received a Raq 4r and I am still waiting for 
> the recovery
> CD I
>     was wondering
>     - has anyone done some disaster planning for RaQ boxes?
>     - what are the essentials to backup?
>     - are scripts available to dump the Postgress database 
> where all the
> site information is stored?
> 
>     I searched the web and found nothing. The RaQ manual I 
> downloaded said some document would be available under
qqq.cobalt.com/support 
> but I didn't find it. RaQ support could only forward me to Cobalt
professional
> services..."
> 
> Excellent question.  I'm trying to decide upon a disaster 
> recovery process
> myself but with only limited success.  I talked to one of the Cobalt
> software engineers at a conference in Dec 2000.  It doesn't 
> appear that
> there is a slick way to recover now...though he offered some 
> hope that there
> would be a solution in the near future.
> 
> I worry about our RAQ3 failing and the hours of effort it 
> would take to
> recover.  Surely, there must be a good way.  I hope someone has one to
> discuss or offer to the group.

Well in that case... I have planned a few days to play with this box until
we put it into production. I will write my experiences down and post them to
the list later.