OT : Disaster recovery?

[Scott Silva]

Colocation Colocation spake the following on 10/25/2006 4:05 PM:
> So I've just spent the past 3 weeks setting up and tweaking my
> Mailscanner installation. I've done every possible tweak and gone
> through everything with a magnifying glass and it all looks great.
> 
> So now my thoughts turn to backups. How best should i protect my
> investment? I cannot yet justify a second box for redundancy so if all
> goes wrong i will need to be able to quickly get my mail server back online.
> 
> I'm considering taking one of my raid mirrors out and rebuilding the
> array online. That way i will have a spare incase it all goes wrong....
> however there are alot of drawbacks to this.
> 
> My server is equipped with lights out management so really what i want
> to do is a "bare metal" type backup, that way if anything does go wrong
> and i happen to be holiday i will still be able to fix it.
> 
> Dream Scenario : uh oh for x reason my server has totally died and all
> data is lost. I ssh in, boot off my already connected USB key and
> reinstall the operating system. (or some kind of restore software?) I
> then pull my backup from my ISP's san storage and begin the restore. Two
> hours later my server is back online and serving mail as it should be!
> 
> Any thoughts? Or am i living in cuckoo land?
> 
> 
> 
You could use something like mondo for a backup that could give you a bare
metal restore. You would need the restore program, mindi, on the usb key.

-- 

MailScanner is like deodorant...
You hope everybody uses it, and
you notice quickly if they don't!!!!