Disk Image Backup

nilesh vaghela nileshj.vaghela at gmail.com
Fri Dec 15 09:51:48 UTC 2006


one can use g4u give you exact functionality like Acronics.

But no gui.

Download g4u.iso and fire cd.

boot from the g4u bootable cd and can create ghost image over the network.


On 12/15/06, Michael Christian <mchristianjr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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