Why is there no new Release? Nobody pays for the basics 🙁
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ReaR (Relax and Recover) is a Linux bare‑metal recovery tool used in many data centres with Red Hat and SUSE commercially supporting packages. It creates bootable rescue media (ISO/USB), boots with the same name IP and SSH keys to make restores seamless, and orchestrates backups via integrations (example: TSM) and internal netfs/tar options. Project stats: seven active maintainers, ~193 contributors, but releases slip to ~once every two years because testing, release automation and docs lack funding; use mkbackup/mkrescue workflows and upstream snapshots now. Integration work typically costs ~€25k vs €100k/yr for commercial alternatives.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and motivation
- 7:27What is Relax and Recover
- 16:27How to use Relax and Recover
- 24:32Configuration examples
- 30:26Advanced features
- 36:47Project history and challenges
- 38:57Releases and future plans
- 40:03Q&A and closing
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