Relax-and-Recover – Linux Disaster Recovery

Relax-and-Recover (ReaR) is a setup-and-forget Linux bare metal disaster recovery solution. It is easy to set up and requires no maintenance so there is no excuse for not using it.

Learn more about Relax-and-Recover from the selected usage scenarios below:

Single Computer / Home User

• recover from a broken hard disk using a bootable USB stick
• recover a broken system from your bootloader

Server Farm / Data Center / Enterprise User

• collect small ISO images on a central server
• integrate with your commercial backup solution
• integrate with your monitoring solution

Or watch a 4-minute complete backup and restore demo. Real time, no cheating!

Watch the ReaR demo video.

Try Relax-and-Recover now. The Quickstart guide takes only a few minutes!

Your environment not supported? Relax-and-Recover is modular and easy to extend. It is GPL licensed and we welcome all feedback and contributions.

ReaR Backup Methods

The complete list of backup methods (BACKUP=...) is:

• AVA Dell EMC Avamar / EMC Avamar
• BACULA Bacula
• BAREOS Bareos
• BLOCKCLONE block device cloning via dd
• BORG Borg Backup
• CDM Rubrik Cloud Data Management
• DP OpenText Data Protector
• DUPLICITY Duplicity / Duply
• EXTERNAL External custom restore method
• FDRUPSTREAM FDR/Upstream
• GALAXY11 Commvault Galaxy 11 / Commvault Simpana
• NBKDC NovaStor DataCenter
• NBU Veritas NetBackup / Symantec NetBackup
• NETFS ReaR built-in backup and restore via rsync or tar to a network file system or to a locally attached backup disk (USB, eSATA, …)
• NFS4SERVER NFS4 server to push data to the rescue system
• NSR Dell EMC NetWorker / EMC NetWorker / Legato NetWorker
• OBDR One Button Disaster Recovery via tape
• PPDM Dell PowerProtect Data Manager
• RBME Rsync Backup Made Easy
• REQUESTRESTORE Request restore from a human operator
• RSYNC ReaR built-in backup using rsync via rsync or ssh protocol
• SESAM SEP Sesam
• TSM IBM Storage Protect / Tivoli Storage Manager / IBM Spectrum Protect
• VEEAM Veeam Backup

ReaR Concepts, Advanced Usage and Project History

To learn more about the Relax-and-Recover concepts, basic & advanced usage and project history watch this 45-minute introduction by Schlomo Schapiro, project founder and maintainer:

Watch the Relax and Recover (ReaR) - Automated Linux Recovery & Open Source Project video.