[H-GEN] DVD Backup & burning software under Linux

[Nikolai Lusan]

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 16:27, Adrian Sutton wrote:
> The only way to be confident in your backups is to perform regular 
> emergency recovery drills.  Assume that your office has just burnt down 
> and everything was destroyed - now see how much you can set up again.  

Amen brother. If you aren't sure your backup can do this (and not just
the first or test backup but _all_ backups) then don't bother with
backups, the pain is going to be severe anyway :)


> The other catch is that if only part of your infrastructure is 
> destroyed you need to be able to preserve things like user ids and a 
> bunch of other things that client computers and other servers have a 
> copy of and expect to be the same.  This is particularly troublesome on 
> Windows domains but there are a number of things in the UNIX world that 
> would suffer similar issues (NFS springs to mind).

If you are getting to a point where multiple servers need the same user
information seriously consider using something like an LDAP repositroy
with a backup server for this, at least that way you only have to worry
about one lot of info and not /etc/[passwd-shadow] on each machine. I
personally have no experience in Windows backup issues I tend to use
samba to server windows users and so only need to worry about the
windows machines as clients, the unix side handles the rest of it for
me.


> Plan for the worst - probability dictates it will happen eventually.

And the last thing you want to be doing is using LDE to go over a hard
drive looking for fragments of a file :)


Nikolai