Disk Image Backup

[nilesh vaghela]

Try this

attach one more hdd with same capacity to the server.

Boot from rescue disk.

give command like

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1024

will  make image of hda to hdb just use any of them will work.

But you need down time for maintenance

On 12/10/06, mark <mroth at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>
> Michael Schwartz wrote:
> > But will this image copy?  I need the entire operating system,
> > everything that will allow me to take the copy HD and just replace the
> > working HD and not go through any kind of special booting procedures.
>
> I'm not sure you want that, perfectly, unless you'll be putting it on
> another *identical* machine, same motherboard and CPU (and same
> revisions on both).
>
>         mark
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "mark" <mroth at cfl.rr.com>
> > To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 20:23
> > Subject: Re: Disk Image Backup
> >
> >
> >> Michael Schwartz wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I have a legacy (RH 7.2) system and need to make an image copy of the
> >>> hard drive.  If this machine goes down (hard drive gone) there is no
> >>> way for me to rebuild the applications.  Can anyone out there help
> >>> please?
> >>
> >> Um, buy a small hard drive (the newest big ones won't be recognized
> >> properly by the older machine's bios), put it on IDE2, shut the apps
> >> down, and copy all of that (*eigh*, except for /dev....)
> >>
> >> mark
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