switchhead
Technical User
Hi all,
Just a query, How are people doing full restores of Linux servers?
I find the official approach of building a new OS & CV install on a different partition/disk difficult to do, especially with rack-mounted servers.
The approach I use is to boot the server with a Knoppix cd, Install CV into Knoppix (ram), I recreate the disk partitions under a different mount point and do a CV restore to this mount point. When I reboot the server without the Knoppix cd, The original OS boots with all partitions intact.
This approach is OK, it means I don't have to carry around spare disks or mess with existing disk partitions but its fiddly.
Does anyone have a better approach?
Just a query, How are people doing full restores of Linux servers?
I find the official approach of building a new OS & CV install on a different partition/disk difficult to do, especially with rack-mounted servers.
The approach I use is to boot the server with a Knoppix cd, Install CV into Knoppix (ram), I recreate the disk partitions under a different mount point and do a CV restore to this mount point. When I reboot the server without the Knoppix cd, The original OS boots with all partitions intact.
This approach is OK, it means I don't have to carry around spare disks or mess with existing disk partitions but its fiddly.
Does anyone have a better approach?