Server Image Backup / Restore (SCSI)

purepages · #1 26th April 2005, 04:18 PM

I have 2 Fedora servers (Dell PowerEdge 2600), with a RAID 1 hardware configuration (straight mirror). Apparently, Norton Ghost might not work with the SCSI drives installed. Other major components installed include MySQL 4.1. The current plan is to backup an image of the master server to a backup server (NOT the 2nd server), possibly with Norton Ghost. But the problem is, we cannot really test that the restore will work, as we don't want to nacker up our 2 proper servers (and the development servers use IDE drives).

Can anyone give me some suggestions as to how they would go about it, and also any useful software that is compatible with Fedora?

imdeemvp · #2 28th April 2005, 09:53 AM

See if this will help.

sezer · #3 28th April 2005, 10:37 PM

You dont need to go with fedora, you can attache HDD to windows and have image backup/restore.
Nero and most dvd burners do that.

I did not use tool to dump ext3 to a file.

sezer · #4 28th April 2005, 10:38 PM

Btw, if you are an idiot, you only try to show how idiot others are. Nothing else.

ieuuk · #5 28th April 2005, 11:09 PM

what about an rsync script and just have a straight copy of all the data to somewhere else