Pre-summary: Full Recovery from Backup Software

Lots of responses. Several excellent and detailed. It will take a little
time to digest and summarize, then I will send it back to the list. Some
time next week when I have to have it to my administration.

Interesting that I sent a variant of this message to an NT managers list
and got no replies even after a couple of days. The sunmanagers had
concrete answers for NT as well as for Sun.

Thank you,


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Chris Hoogendyk

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   O__  ---- Network Specialist & Unix Systems Administrator
  c/ /'_ --- Library Information Systems & Technology Services
 (*) \(*) -- W.E.B. Du Bois Library
~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst

<choogend@library.umass.edu>

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Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
> 
> This is a combination post-mortem and planning for the next time.
> 
> Suppose you had a Server that had a catastrophic failure due to a
> disk controller failure or massive virus attack or something else, and
> you had to put in a new drive or completely reformat the drive, recover
> the system in it's entirety and have all the services working and all
> clients on the network happily recognizing it as their server.
> 
> You need to do this quickly, relatively easily, and without
> re-installing all the software from scratch.
> 
> Have any of you done this?
> 
> What backup software were you using?
> 
> Did the backup software perform up to your expectations?
> 
> Extra credit ;,) if you can answer also for NT servers: Did you have any
> network problems afterwards with server identity, sids, or anything else
> NT techy related?
> 
> Are any of you using really high end expensive enterprise type software
> for these purposes? Or (for NT) do you get along with the standard major
> PC software vendors? Or (for Solaris) do you get along with amanda?
> 
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> Chris Hoogendyk
> 
> --
>    O__  ---- Network Specialist & Unix Systems Administrator
>   c/ /'_ --- Library Information Systems & Technology Services
>  (*) \(*) -- W.E.B. Du Bois Library
> ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
> 
> <choogend@library.umass.edu>
> 
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