*Call for Paper submission for CentOS Dojo Brussels 2016.*

*Title*: Relax-and-Recover simplifies Linux Disaster Recovery

*Speaker*: Gratien D'haese, IT3 Consultants, Belgium

*Abstract*: Linux Disaster Recovery exercises are not every day tasks and most system engineers lack real-time experience how to practice them. This talk will describe the basic knowledge about disaster recovery (DR) and Business Continuity (BC) and will go deeper into the different aspects of each. However, we will also show you how to start up DR plan and explain some handy tools, such as Relax and Recover (rear) so you can get started and being prepared.

We will dive into Relax-and-Recover (rear), which has a modular disaster recovery engine completely written in bash and released under GPL v2 license. Rear can store the details about your systems on disk (NAS, USB, SAN,...) or network (PXE, NFS, CIFS,...) including the complete backup. It also creates a bootable image which you need to execute a bare metal restore. Furthermore, thanks to the modular concept, we can integrate rear with external backup solutions (commercial or open source) to do the backup and restore part which makes rear very scalable in big enterprises. Rear scales even with Cloud solutions and is the heart of another great project (drlm or disaster recovery linux manager).

*Biography*: Gratien D'haese is a Belgian independent IT Consultant who is already 27 years active in the Unix world (and with Linux since its invention in 1991). Gratien is quite active in the Unix/Linux Open Source world and is giving talks around various topics since the days of the Belgian UNIX Users Group and other organizations promoting Unix/Linux and the Open Source movement. On occasions he talks about his projects on conferences, such as at Fosdem, LinuxTag, T-Dose, and LOAD with talks around Relax-and-Recover, IPv6, adhocr. Gratien is the co-founder and main designer of Relax-and-Recover (rear) together with Schlomo Schapiro (from Germany). This project started in 2006 and the software is part of Fedora, RHEL 7.2, EPEL and SLES HA - [http://relax-and-recover.org/] Gratien is also involved with other Open Source projects, such as "Make CD-ROM Recovery (mkcdrec)", upgrade-ux, WBEMextras, adhocr, Config2HTML, SANmigration, sgesap_validation, c4 and criux.

*Various*: You can find previous (recorded) presentations of me under the events tabs of Relax and Recover website [http://relax-and-recover.org/events/]

best regards,

Gratien D'haese IT3 Consultants bvba Vennestraat 15, B-2560 Nijlen

E-mail: gratien.dhaese@it3.be URL: http://www.it3.be/