rockandrollmachine
IS-IT--Management
I'm sorting out the disaster recovery plan for a critical server. It's a Dell PowerEdge 2850 running Openserver 5.0.6.
We have a disaster recovery agreement with HP and they have just confirmed that in the event of a total disaster such as the server being totally wiped out, they would NOT bring an identical server for me to recover onto, but a "HP equivalent".
I'd rather recover with root/boot and back-up tapes as it's so much quicker than reinstalling etc, but I'm unsure what is involved to do this when the hardware is different.
I wondered if it would be possible to configure BTLD drivers for the RAID controller, tape controller and NIC at boot time, but I can't find much information on this. It looks like commercial products like BackupEdge can do this though.
Has anyone done this or have any advice for doing it?
We have a disaster recovery agreement with HP and they have just confirmed that in the event of a total disaster such as the server being totally wiped out, they would NOT bring an identical server for me to recover onto, but a "HP equivalent".
I'd rather recover with root/boot and back-up tapes as it's so much quicker than reinstalling etc, but I'm unsure what is involved to do this when the hardware is different.
I wondered if it would be possible to configure BTLD drivers for the RAID controller, tape controller and NIC at boot time, but I can't find much information on this. It looks like commercial products like BackupEdge can do this though.
Has anyone done this or have any advice for doing it?