[sllug-members]: Backup solutions

[Justin R Findlay]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:32:58PM -0600, Donald Livingston wrote:
>    My company is in the process of setting up an Asterisk VoIP PBX system
>    for our office phones, and we are in need of a backup solution for the
>    Asterisk box.  We would like to be able to create an image of the hard
>    drive for quick recovery.  We looked into Symantec Ghost, but it
>    appears to install only to Windows partitions.  I am looking for a
>    similar software solution that will run on RHES 4. If we can't find a
>    reasonable solution by the end of this week we will look at
>    alternatives (backup scripts to external drives, DVD burner, etc.).

If you can xenify the box then xen allows you to copy live systems as
well as dead copying (whatever that means).  Besides you get all the
other collateral benefits of xen which are primarily the coolness factor
of using neato technology.


Justin