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IT3 Consultants Support Service for ReaR

What is Relax-and-Recover (ReaR)?

Rear logo Rear stands for Relax and Recover and is a Linux Disaster Recovery framework written in bash shell language.

We have a dedicated web site on rear at http://relax-and-recover.org/

The code is completely free and is published with the GNU Public Licence version 2. We’re very proud that ReaR has become part of the Fedora, RHEL and OpenSuSe distributions. That shows that the code become quite mature and has proven to be very stable.

When we said ReaR is a disaster recovery framework we meant each module is small and has its own specific goal. ReaR creates an ISO image to boot from in case of disaster and the backup can be stores practically anywhere (NFS, CIFS, USB disks, remote tape devices). We go even one step further and offer to integrate with commercial backup solutions such as Tivoli, NetBackup and Data Protector. More improtant are the integrations with Open Source backup software such as Bareos, Bacula, Borg Backup and duplicity.

We can imagine this may sound a bit overwhelming to you, but we can help you out with offering services around ReaR.

Relax-and-Recover (ReaR) Support Services

  • helping you with writing and implementing a disaster recovery policy within your company
  • setting up and configuring rear as a central disaster recovery solution
  • building a Proof-of-Concept set-up to convince your higher management
  • help you with coding missing components within rear (ask us if you’re unsure)
  • write the integration modules for external (open source or commercial) backup solutions
  • troubleshooting an existing disaster recovery solution based on ReaR
  • migrate disaster recovery solutions based on mkCDrec towards ReaR
  • help you writing a disaster recovery manuals based on ReaR of course
  • give training sessions to your operational teams
  • provide back-end support services (hourly based, month or year contracts possible too)
  • software support contracts for any (older) ReaR version
  • software maintenance contracts for smooth upgrades (including test cases)
  • integrating new GNU/Linux distributions into the ReaR Automated Testing project
  • IT3 Consultants is an official RedHat partner and you’ll find a web page on rear on their partner website

Above list are paid services and are delivered by IT3 Consultants’ author of ReaR (Gratien D’haese)

ReaR Support Contracts available

  • Quickstart (REAR-Q)
  • Standard (REAR-S)
  • Advanced (REAR-A)
  • Business (REAR-B)
  • Enterprise (REAR-E)
  • Unlimited (REAR-U)

For more information please have a look at.

Free ReaR Support Services

However, the ReaR community also delivers support for rear free of charge, but no guarantee of quick answers or fixes. Therefore, see our rear-users mailing list and issue tracker

ReaR Workshops

We organize on request ReaR workshops in our offices or at customer’s location. The workshop content is customer detailored and contains plenty of lab exercises. An example of such workshop agenda could be:

  • Introduction to ReaR
  • How to set it up and configure it
  • Design a Disaster Recovery Plan for your environment
  • Understand the basic settings
  • Security considerations
  • Lab 1: Set it up in our lab environment
  • Complex configurations and possibilities
  • Lab2: make a rescue image and boot from it
  • Understanding the Disaster Recovery Process of a server
  • Lab 3: make a backup of the server with rear and do a recovery on a virtual machine
  • Disaster Recovery as a Service
  • Lab 4: making a central depot of rescue images
  • Lab 5: disaster recovery and the Cloud
  • Wrap up and Frequently Asked Questions

On regular basis we do a free workshop at conferences, such as the one we organized at LinuxTag 2012