(There's no need to CC me on postings to the list.)
Raphael Mankin writes:
On 15-Sep-2002 Richard Kettlewell wrote:
But you have backups anyway, right?
OK ,let's ask the awkward questions. 1.How many of the members of this list have *complete* backups the their umpteen-gigabyte disks?
I have a couple of specific filesystems that are documented as not backed up. They only contain data mirrored from the internet, scratch files, unpacked-but-unmodified source trees, etc. Everything else in the house - four computers - is fully backed up, with any given system being backed up every other night (provided I remember to change the tape, which I usually do).
- How long would it take you to rebuild your system to ts *current*
state after a disk crash?
I had a motherboard go bad and mangle some of the filesystems (particularly /, and particularly /etc), and it took less than 24 hours to restore everything in that case. (If you count getting the motherboard replaced then several weeks, but I'm not convinced that's what you meant.)
I have complete, daily tape backups, but I have never yet managed to rebuild a system in under a week. The new system always has a slightly different configuration from the old one, and there is always something that I overlook when selecting what to restore. Then there are incompatible libraries etc.
Err. Just restore absolutely everything, surely?
ttfn/rjk