Rsync -> restore?
I know Rsync and backing up has been discussed many times before on these boards, and seems like a good way to keep backups of servers, however I have a couple of questions that I have not seen answered on these boards...
First, say you have a backup server that is fully synched with your main server using Rsync. Your main server fails, how would you go about restoring this server?
I am thinking of having a central backup server that will backup multiple machines using Rsync. If a server fails, I would like to be able to do a clean OS restore and then Rsync all of the files back. A fully loaded server would have roughly 30GB of data on it. Assuming a full 100Mbps ethernet link, it would take ~40 mins to get the information back (which is acceptable to me for a major failure).
How hard is it going to be to implement this using Rsync?
