13 months ago we demonstrated our Disaster Recovery Plan to our client
by taking backup tapes (8mm, created with vdump) up to Philadelphia and
successfully re-created our system on an AlphaServer provided by a
company which is in business to provide backup sites (Sungard). I
booted from the install CD, got a "root shell," did a little MAKEDEVing,
mounted each disk in turn to /mnt, and vrestored from the 8mm tapes.
Some fiddling around, a few reboots, and we were able to demonstrate
that we could successfully carry on from Sungard's site.
We're running 4.0F on a DS20.
Now we need to demonstrate this again. But in the meantime, we've gone
to backups done by Networker onto DLTs.
- How do I "bootstrap" using Networker backups?
- Is Networker bundled into the OS? This was acquired before my time.
I note that
there is a Networker distribution on the Associated Products CD.
- There is an on-disk index, which Networker would not have access to
until after it
restored the file system that contains the index.
- The System Administration manual in the 4.0F HTML documentation isn't
much help.
I recall seeing a Networker manual which hinted at restoring an
entire file system or
disk, but didn't give any details; and now I can't find the manual.
Thanks,
Hugh
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Hugh Pritchard (Tier Technologies), 202-724-4690
D.C. Ofc of Corporation Counsel, Child Support Enforcement Division
441 4th St NW, Suite 550, Washington, DC 20001
mailto:Hugh.Pritchard_at_DC.gov
Received on Wed Jan 16 2002 - 19:01:25 NZDT