* Dan Langille <dan [ at ] langille [ dot ] org> [070226 22:12]: > On 26 Feb 2007 at 21:47, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > > > I think you want to create a hot stand by. Bacula is probably not the > > right tool for that. Maybe RAID-1. > > And to be clear, RAID is not a backup. It is a tool to help you > through a disk failure. It's a backup if your cron job hot injects the other disk and resyncs the drives, then disconnects them (in software speak only) once finished. Moreover, it's a full image. > I backup my data. I leave the OS for reinstallation. The data > includes configuration files etc. But I don't backup the apps etc, > things which can be easily reconstructed from other sources. Pretty much the same here. If you distribute your data correctly, you can easily reconstruct your system with just /etc, /var, /home and maybe /usr/local. -Bart -- WebSig: http://www.jukie.net/~bart/sig/
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