best way to make a full backup of a system

[Geofrey Rainey]

You could also use the traditional dump/restore commands which I've used recently and are great.

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Hello Fabio,

one question, How do you restore de system with de file generated?

Thanks,

ESG

2010/1/21 "Fábio Jr." <fjuniorlista at gmail.com>

> 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.
>
> []s
>
>
> 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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