On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 14:08, Haley Crowe wrote: > Hello all. I have what I hope will be a fairly simple question. We > have a Redhat system that we want to make sure we get a full system > backup (image) of anytime a major change is made. Does anyone have any > suggestions or tips on how they are doing it? >
If you have a machine with a few gigs to spare use rsync to copy the entire filesystem from the machine (exclude the /proc and /mnt directories) to another machine. To restore, you mount a HD, and copy the file system to it, create the /proc and /mnt directories, then put the HD in the machine, and boot via a boot disk. Boot into maintanance mode (It will automaticlly) enter your root password and use e2label to label your partitions mount points. Reboot with boot disk. login as root, and run grub-install /dev/<drive>. all done. Takes an hour to restore at the outside. You can always rsync back to the original machine to skip a few steps too. I have simple scripts if you need it. -- Michael Gargiullo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Warp Drive Networks -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
