Looking for backup software of complete system

[Rick Lim]

Will cpio work with a CD burner, and how does it handle spaning across
multiple CDs?

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Edwin Dicker
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 8:48 AM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Looking for backup software of complete system


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Rick Lim
To: Fedora List
Sent: Saturday, 09 October, 2004 16:46
Subject: Looking for backup software of complete system


Hi there,
Could anyone recommend a backup software that would back up the whole 
system, what I am looking for is much like Ghost for Linux but the system 
has to keep running.
I am not worried about log files, this is the case where if the machine 
fails then we are down for the period of time it takes to either build a new

OS disk and reinstall all of the custom programs and their numerous quirks 
or grab the latest restore from the back media and just 'clone' a new disk 
with all the programs setup.

What I have tried in the past is to clone the harddisk using the harddisk 
upgrade howto method, but that involves taking the machine completely 
offline, also cutting an image with Ghost means taking the machine offline.

Thanks.

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I always use cpio.
On my live system i run a cpio backup to tape and exclude files in  /proc 
and /sys.
When I need to restore I only have to boot a linux rescue cd, partition the 
'new' disk and create filesystems on it , mount the partitions and start the

cpio restore.
After restoring I install grub again and voila......boot the system and 
you're back in business

Edwin 

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