Hello --

I am coming up with a plan to have a group of our application servers have an image of each saved to a centralized disaster recovery server. The idea is to have an image available in the event of a hardware failure, or a deployment of similarly configured system, that can be accessed and loaded onto the target system via a network boot and connection.

I have installed the Clonezilla DRBL server on a system, and my plan is to utilize the CloneZilla live CD to create a base image for the respective servers. I had several questions concerning this.

1. Is Clonezilla the best software to use in this scenario, or is there a better choice?

2. If I want to install agent software on the target systems that would do periodic updates to the recovery server, what would be the recommended choice?

Thanks.

Clonezilla is generally fine as long as you're EXTREMELY CAREFUL. Make a backup first, and do it when everybody else is away, if possible. (I know larger companies have multiple shifts).

Quite honestly, though, I don't see why this is needed if you do weekly tape backups. If you have a disaster that wipes out the tapes, you've got a bigger problem on your hands.

Centralized disaster recovery?!

A helluva lot of New York "disaster recovery" data centers were located in WTC 1 & 2 . . .