Disk Image Backup

[Michael Christian]

If you have the money, the Acronix Linus Server works like a charm for us.
Create a bootable CD and image all of your other servers as well.

On 12/11/06, Allen Chen <achen at harbourfrontcentre.com> wrote:
>
> This idea is the best.
>
>
>
> nilesh vaghela wrote:
> > 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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