Re: [cobalt-users] RE: Full Restores... they are kidding, right?

[Malcolm McLeary <mmcleary@xxxxxxx>]

on 4/12/01 8:47 AM, Render-Vue at sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I too would be interested in a "proven" method of restoring specific files
> from the back-up set or even restoring the whole customer base after a box
> has been restored and patched up again.
> 
> Look forward to any words of wisdom or advise

Backup is pointless unless you know you can restore.

Simply doing backups without actually doing routine trial restores from your
backups is asking for trouble when the time actually comes.

Although its still in beta and not even announced, I use a backup client
which is supported by a well known Mac/Windows backup solution (although the
Linux clients is presently only supported by the Windows version).  It works
fine on Qube3s and I have tried it on RaQs successfully.  In a local
environment its quite appropriate to have a "Backup Server" which sucks data
across the network and allows network restores.  In a remote environment
this may be a bit difficult to arrange unless the datacenter provides the
service.

With the client I use, restoring individual files is straight forward. I
have trialed a disaster recovery by first doing an OS Restore, patches, then
full restore from most recent backup and it worked, but it could be better.

What I'd like is a Cobalt DR CD ... it would be like a Cobalt OS Restore CD
in that it allows the appliance to net boot, but instead of doing an OS
Restore it simply loads the backup client so my "Backup Server" can do a
full restore from backup onto a freshly partitioned disk.

Cheers,  Malcolm

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