[ale] Forcing RW on boot
Mike Harrison
meuon at geeklabs.com
Tue Mar 30 18:11:11 EDT 2010
> 1. A reboot command that follows instructions
> 2. A busybox binary with no symlinks and is statically linked that I
> can use in emergency
> 3. CentOS rescue CD in grub so I can boot alternative.
> 4. CentOS load CD in grub so I can reload.
Great ideas.
I'll add this one:
In a recent remote install we noticed the motherboard had 2 USB slots
INSIDE the case. An idea popped into mind:
On my last trip to it, I stuck a couple of flash drives in them (16gb
each). The first one has clonezilla and a clonezilla image of the original
system, the second gets a daily copy of all the code changes and a
database dump of the critical tables (some aren't). Other backups
are made across the network as well.
In a test with the NOC guy doing a re-install on bare metal,
he was back up in under 10 minutes.
It's now S.O.P. :)
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