Computer Technology Review: Methods of Linux Bare Metal Restore and Disaster Recovery | Linux Today

Computer Technology Review: Methods of Linux Bare Metal Restore and Disaster Recovery

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 7, 2006

“Most companies think they are prepared for disaster by backing
up critical data, which they can quickly restore if a loss occurs.
Few companies, however, are prepared for a catastrophe-total system
failure-in which they lose all their data as well as the entire
operating system, applications, settings, patches and more,
reducing their system to ‘bare metal’ and experiencing costly
downtime.

“Rebuilding even a single system from scratch can take a few
hours or several days-time in which management, employees and
customers have no data access…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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