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by **albatroz** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:15 pm

Is there a way to backup a working installation an restore it in other hardware to avoid the mess of fully installation every time?

by **mflorell** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:54 am

I will usually copy the /etc/astguiclient.conf and /etc/asterisk/* files and moved them to the new hardware, but nothing else other than that. On new hardware it usually takes less than an hour to install everything that is needed for VICIDIAL to run.

You could always clone the harddrive with G4U or another clone utility.

by **Op3r** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:50 am

is it possible to create an iso for it? or have a big fat tar like stage-2 install of gentoo but with all the required packages in it?

by **mflorell** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:13 pm

That would depend on your Linux distro. Some would work fine with that, others would not unless the conditions were exactly the same from one to another.

I believe that Slackware and Gentoo would do fine with a big tarball of installed files.

by **Op3r** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:03 pm

But Im a centos boy

I guess it cant hurt to try it.

but

this is will also depends on the hardwares right?

by **mflorell** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:37 pm

Yes, hardware is very important in doing clones of installations. I was assuming that we were taloking about similar if not equal hardware.

by **albatroz** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:54 pm

And in case I would like to do a Ghost-like restore/backup for disaster recovery? What would you recommend?
Assuming (of course) that the hardware used is similar....

I am having some problems finding SATA capable backup utilities for Linux ...

Right now I am trusting in tar.gz files...

by **mflorell** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 3:53 am

Have you tried g4u (Ghost for Unix) it is available on the Ultimatebootcd.

by **Op3r** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 7:22 am

I'd rather backup the mysql databases and the conf's

although an hour of downtime is unacceptable I find it more reliable than just putting up a cloned image file.

but anyway to each of its own and this warrants additional attention on how can we create a back up scenarios for our VICIDIAL servers.

Any one have ideas?

by **devafree** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:22 pm

hi

I prefer to back up the hard disk itself so the second hdd can be rebooted if the first should crash , but then the database doesn't stay up to date.

regards
Devafree

by **albatroz** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:46 pm

Anybody has tried this?

http://www.mondorescue.org/

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