Oracle Linux: How To Configure Disaster Recovery Using Relax-And-Recover (ReAR) Utility (Doc ID 2498613.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 12, 2023

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Goal

Relax-and-Recover (ReaR) is an Open Source based system backup and recovery solution that is natively provided as part of Oracle Linux (OL).
The backup procedure produces a bootable image for the system to initiate recovery.
The boot image can be used to re-partition the system, initiate system restore from available backups and perform restoration to different hardware.
ReaR supports various boot media (ISO, PXE, OBDR tape, USB or eSATA storage) and a wide variety of network protocols (SFTP, FTP, HTTP, NFS, CIFS).

This document serves as an example guide to install and configure ReaR for backup to and restore from NFS storage.

Solution

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