[NTLUG:Discuss] Disaster recovery

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 00:11 -0500, David I S Mandala wrote:
> I start at the lowest level and document the hard disk layout with
> fdisk -l /dev/???? Then I document the fstab. From there I document all 
> installed software and versions, and I keep going up from there. I 
> document all settings in /etc.

Yes, I agree:
- Disk labels (aka partition tables)
- Install package list (dump of DPKGs, RPMs, etc...)
- Software settings (typically already using a centralized CM system)

Having a boot CD for each system helps in restoration.  There are
several projects out there, hit Freshmeat.NET.

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