Backup Question

[gcdhnjgfhfgsxh]

Hi

I am currently looking at managing over 100 Md110's from a central location. All of them will eventually be at BC12 software and connected to the LAN/WAN for administration. For desaster recovery reasons we want to take regular backups of each system and have them stored off site, possibly on a central server. I am aware that you can FTP into the NIU and wanted to know that if we copy the files from either USR1/SES/DR/REL1 or USR2/SES/DR/REL2 depending upon which is the latest backup, would keeping these files on a server and making them available to a mentainer in the event of a disaster be of any use to them to recover the system to its last configuration

Thanks

Dave

http://affy.dynu.net

 

[FICRI]

Hi,

That will work fine. If you need to use the backup files they have to be copied to a new HDU and that can be done in another MD110 equipped with NIU.
I have used this method a lot and I normally start the copying from a higher level than REL1 or REL2. Doing this you also get a backup of other data e.g. TM.

 

[mdfan]

a valid REL can always be copied onto a HDU to start up a system again.
The maintainer needs first to prepare the disk by making the filesystem . Then he loads the REL which was sent e.g. as a zip file from the central office.

 

[gcdhnjgfhfgsxh]

Thanks guys for that just that answer i needed



Dave

Dave

http://affy.dynu.net