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Linux Complete Backup and Recovery HOWTO

Linux Complete Backup and Recovery HOWTO

Charles Curley

ccurley at trib dot com

Revision History
Revision 0.02	2002-01-27	Revised by: c^2
Added Mondo to resources
Revision 0.01	2001-10-25	Revised by: c^2
Initial version for LDP release

Imagine your disk drive has just become a very expensive hockey puck. Imagine you have had a fire, and your computer case now looks like something Salvidor Dali would like to paint. Now what?

Total restore, sometimes called bare metal recovery, is the process of rebuilding a computer after a catastrophic failure. In order to make a total restoration, you must have complete backups, not only of your file system, but of partition information and other data. This HOWTO is a step-by-step tutorial on how to back up a Linux computer so as to be able to make a bare metal recovery, and how to make that bare metal recovery. It includes some related scripts.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

1.1. Copyright Information
1.2. Disclaimer
1.3. New Versions
1.4. Credits
1.5. Feedback
1.6. Translations

2. Overview

2.1. Limitations

3. Preparation

3.1. Installing the ZIP® Drive

4. Creating the Stage 1 Back Up

5. Booting tomsrtbt

6. Second Stage Restoration

7. Distribution Specific Notes

7.1. Red Hat 7.1
7.2. Red Hat 7.0

8. Application Specific Notes

8.1. Squid
8.2. Arkeia

9. Some Advice for Disaster Recovery

10. What Now?

10.1. To Do

11. The Scripts

11.1. First Stage
11.2. Second Stage
11.3. Backup Server Scripts

12. Resources

A. GNU Free Documentation License

0. PREAMBLE
1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
2. VERBATIM COPYING
3. COPYING IN QUANTITY
4. MODIFICATIONS
5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
8. TRANSLATION
9. TERMINATION
10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
11. How to use this License for your documents

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