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What are the standard practice for backup up linux or unix server?
do you take full image of the box for disaster recovery and how often? any software you use.
do you take full image of the box for disaster recovery and how often? any software you use.
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I thought acronis claims it can restore images on different hardware. I am not sure if this works or not but i do not understand how this would work unless they check the target hardware and load all the drivers for that new hardware before copying the data.
Hello,
I have used acronis on different hardware. The result was kernel panic.
Acronis takes an image with the kernel compiled to work for a certain hardware. You then, take this image, put it on a new hardware where the kernel in the image lacks the suitable drivers for this new hardware. Acronis lacks the capability to re-compile linux kernels enabling and adding new modules.
Good Luck!
I have used acronis on different hardware. The result was kernel panic.
Acronis takes an image with the kernel compiled to work for a certain hardware. You then, take this image, put it on a new hardware where the kernel in the image lacks the suitable drivers for this new hardware. Acronis lacks the capability to re-compile linux kernels enabling and adding new modules.
Good Luck!
You can always use UNIX native dd command,
still making TAR files from stopeed applications is a lot easier and more to the point.
still making TAR files from stopeed applications is a lot easier and more to the point.
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