[SLE] Disaster Recover Preparation -- How to do it?

From: Greg Wallace (jgregw_at_acsalaska.net)
Date: 04/18/05

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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:54:32 -0800

         I need to protect my system from a hard-drive failure. It's on a Dell
    Optiplex desktop machine with a single hard drive. This Dell only allows me
    to boot from the single internal disk. I have 2 usb 2.0 ports and two USB
    hard drives with 120G each of storage on them, all available for backups. I
    am using app 16G in total on my 80G internal drive, so storage isn't an
    issue. I am currently running 8.1 Pro, my original SuSE version. It would
    seem to me that the only way to get my system back would be to replace the
    failed drive in the machine, re-install SuSE from the installation CD, then
    do a full recovery from one of the USB hard-drives. Currently, I can
    re-install 8.1 out of the box, overlaying my data, point to a YAST backup,
    do a full recovery, and everything comes back and works perfectly. When I
    upgrade to a later version of SuSE (I've tried 8.2, 9.0, and 9.1) and try
    the same thing, a lot of my software no longer works after the recovery.
    Apparently, when you move to a later version, you lose the ability to use
    YAST for full recovery. So, I can either keep all of the software I
    currently have or I can move to a later version of SuSE, but I can't do
    both! I have an Oracle Enterprise database server on my Pro machine, which
    took tons of work to configure. I can't afford to lose it. This is what
    has been holding me up from moving forward.
         I am investigating some 3rd party software that I recently purchased
    that's supposed to a full recovery for you, but I'm not too sure about it
    after having worked with it for a few weeks. Is there a way to do this type
    of recovery strictly using some basic software that comes with my SuSE 8.1
    Pro? Even if it's a multi-step process, if it would work, I'd like to know
    how to do it. Can you back up each high-level directory separately and then
    recover each of those back while your system is running? Any suggestions
    greatly appreciated,

    Greg Wallace

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