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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- J Martin Rushton MBCS