best way to make a full backup of a system

["Fábio Jr."]

Hello,

You could use the dd comand also. Take a look at the man page. (man dd)

With dd you can copy the full disk.

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ESGLinux escreveu:
> Hi All,
>
> I have just installed and configured a RHEL Server and now that this work is
> finished I want to make a complete backup of it. The goal is that if it
> breaks I can recover it as quick as possible.
>
> I always use the tar commad to do this task but, perhaps, now there are more
> advanced tools to do this task. For example, I have been testing
> virtualization and I would like to do something like restore a virtual image
> but with a physical system. So it could be great to make an image of the
> system and have an easy way to restore this image in the system.
>
> How do you make this?  ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> ESG
>   


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