Disaster recovery

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To add to this, if you have two machines you could run the vrrpd to do the IP 
change for you.

On Friday 02 May 2003 03:57, you wrote:
> If funds permit, have a completely redundant FreeBSD machine standing by.
> Use cron and rsync to periodically copy data files over to the secondary
> machine.  If the primary machine fails, simply change the IP number of the
> secondary machine to that of the primary, and viola, you are back online.
> Of course you will lose any emails or web data that has changed since the
> last rsync, but you lose data anyway if you have to get it off a tap.  Any
> databases will need a "point of failure" recovery scheme.
>
> Also, you may want to put a tape drive in the secondary machine and backup
> the rsync'd data to the tape.  This removes the tape backup task from your
> primary machine.
>
> Dale Ahrens
> Chief Technology Officer
> Sopris Surfers, Inc.
> 970-963-7873
> dale at sopris.net
> www.sopris.net
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Thomas Dwyer
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 8:46 AM
> To: freebsd-isp at freebsd.org
> Subject: Disaster recovery
>
>
> Hello
>
> We are in the final stages of a migration from Win2k to FreeBSD for Web
> Server and Email.
>
> Everything is ready for the big switchover.  I would like some advice on
> disaster recovery planning.  What to use for remote backup (tar?).  And
> with a .tar file, is it possible to resore the /usr partition over top of a
> clean FreeBSD install .. etc
>
> Thanks
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