Thanks for that. I only picked up on rear this morning, I suppose if you don't go looking for it you'll never find it. A combination of the paper Site Management Guide and the nightly disk summary have worked for over 20 years on *NIX! VMS before that was totally different, but we still kept paper copies of configuration.
On 18/11/2020 12:47, Felix Kölzow wrote:
What I've done in the past is before the nightly backup write a small file to the root of each filesystem giving disk geometries. You can then use any recovery DVD to partition and reload the OS. If rear can do this for me it would be __much__ neater!
According to rear webpage: https://relax-and-recover.org/about/
Extensive disk layout implementation, incl.
* HWRAID (HP SmartArray) * SWRAID * LVM * multipathing * DRBD * iSCSI * LUKS (encrypted partitions and filesystems)
I personally used rear to restore lvm volume groups and several logical volumes with success.
I will test a more complicated layout until the end of this year and can let you know about the findings.
Regards,
Felix
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