[cobalt-users] Disaster recovery

[Robert Fitzpatrick <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was thinking of making a tar backup as someone suggested on the list a
little while ago. Has anyone tested full restores using this type of method?
I was wondering if it is best to tar specific areas separately and restore
them in a certain order or just tar the whole thing as a disaster recovery
proc. I am unsure of what I should do for disaster recovery as I'm bringing
my first Cobalt appliance online soon. I am investing into a 2nd RaQ3 that
will be used solely for disaster recovery. My plan is to make tar files of
the whole active machine and have the 2nd one waiting with a fresh OS
Restore loaded. Maybe test it each month.

If anyone has tried this type of disaster recovery, I would appreciate some
insight. I was also wondering how much I can rely on the RaQ backup (.raq),
or should I just do it all using tar. Once backed up using tar, the plan it
to ftp it off to another machine.

Thanks,

Robert