What about Bacula? http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Disast_Recove_Using_Bacula.html#RescueChapter Brock On 6/20/07, Nate Carlson <tclug at natecarlson.com> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Michael Bruder wrote: > > Would any of you be willing to give me some advice on the best way to do > > a bare metal recovery of Linux? The University that I work for is > > currently in the beginning stages of moving an Oracle 10g installation > > off of a dinosaur VMS server, and we cannot determine the best way to do > > a bare metal recovery of the RedHat Enterprise 4 OS that will house the > > new Oracle installation. It was easy in VMS if we lost the operating > > system disk to just pop in a new drive, and restore the OS from tape. > > This doesn't seem so easy with RedHat. We are currently researching > > options, but I would appreciate any input. > > Try out Mondo Rescue. > > Otherwise, if you've got a tarball or similar of the system, boot off a > rescue cd, partition the new disk, mount the disk, extract the tarball to > said disk, install bootloader, reboot, profit. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > | nate carlson | natecars at natecarlson.com | http://www.natecarlson.com | > | depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981 | > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >