Relax and recover
Introduction
IT turned out, that veaam does not work witch Arcolinux/archlinux, hence the installation of the component veeamsnap is broken. So I needed another solution. I tried out backup via dd, which I might show on another page, but finally I found this tool with the name rear - Relax and recover. It has multiple options and it seems to work very nice and it is extreme versatile. However, there is a setback. The configuration is very cryptic with configuration files and command line options. The documentation is very much scattered in the internet.
Relax-and-Recover (abbreviated ReaR) is an Open Source disaster recovery solution. It is a modular framework with many ready-to-go workflows for common situations.
Relax-and-Recover produces a bootable image. This image can re-partition the system. Once that is done it initiates a restore from backup. Restores to different hardware are possible. Relax-and-Recover can therefore be used as a migration tool as well.
Currently Relax-and-Recover supports various boot media:
- ISO
- PXE
- OBDR tape
- USB
- eSATA storage
It supports a variety of network protocols (incl. sftp, ftp, http, nfs, cifs) for storage and backup as well as a multitude of backup strategies (incl. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, MircoFocus Data Protector, Symantec NetBackup, EMC NetWorker, EMC Avamar, FDR/Upstream, NovaStor DC, Rubrik Cloud Data Management (CDM), Bareos, Bacula, rsync, rbme, Borg). This results in a bootable image that is capable of booting via PXE, DVD/CD, bootable tape or virtual provisioning.
Installation
Installation on Arcolinux/Archlinux
Installation on ZorinOS/Debian
Configuration
Useful links
https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/master/doc/rear.8.adoc
https://github.com/rear/rear/tree/master/usr/share/rear/conf/examples
https://github.com/rear/rear/blob/master/doc/user-guide/relax-and-recover-user-guide.adoc