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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: brian MOore on April 29, 2002, 08:24:16 PM
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Greetings all. would welcome comments on the following:
I want to be able to do a complete backup of my system without finding a tape drive large enough to backup my 4 gb of data on the server. was thinking of adding another ide hard disk in the machine and backing up my / partition with something like the following:
dd if=/dev/hda6 of=/dev/hdc1/backup.img
IN the event of a system failure, I could do a fresh install and then restore the partition from the image. don't know if this is a workable solution but figured I would ask for comment. any tips, ideas on how I am going to get my self in major trouble, etc would be welcome.
thanks. brian.
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You could also use partimage, or norton ghost....(i use ghost)
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There have been comments on this forum that Ghost will create a Linux image, but won't restore it properly. Have you tried a restore?
dubois wrote:
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> You could also use partimage, or norton ghost....(i use ghost)
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Both Ghost and Partimage required restart, "dd" can be used while server is still up, but its _VERY_ slow.
There are threads on this forum about using rsync for this, you may want to search for those.
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thaat is what prompted this adventure. I tried all sorts of things with ghost 2002 with no joy. usually after a restore, got stuck at the lilo prompt or had a kernel panick after restoring from a ghost image. partimage looks very promissin as an alternative. will give it a shot and see what comes of it.
brian.
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hmmm..never tried to restore with ghost. i too may replace it with partimage