On 6/20/07, Michael Bruder <mjbruder at gmail.com> wrote: > Would any of you be willing to give me some advice on the best way to do a > bare metal recovery of Linux? Look at System Imager [ http://wiki.systemimager.org/index.php/Main_Page ]. Snap an image from a "gold" master, or any time before making a Big Change (tm). Put that image on another box setup to do PXE and TFTP and you're set. You can restore a box from bare metal to exactly how it was when you snapped the image within 20 minutes, depending on the network, disk speed, image size, and the like. -- Brian D. Ropers-Huilman, Director Systems Administration and Technical Operations Minnesota Supercomputing Institute <bropers at msi.umn.edu> 599 Walter Library +1 612-626-5948 (V) 117 Pleasant Street S.E. +1 612-624-8861 (F) University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus Minneapolis, MN 55455-0255 http://www.msi.umn.edu/