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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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!<br>
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Any thoughts? Or am i living in cuckoo land?<br>
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