On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 14:45, john lawler wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking into rolling out a few RH9 machine and need to be able to > make rock-solid disk images of them in a flexible manner such that I > can burn the results out to multiple CDs or store them on harddrives. > I would like this to work how Norton Ghost does for Windows machines, > in that the application would have to recognize the files systems (so > that I wouldn't get a 10GB image for a 10GB drive that only has 1.5GB > used, e.g.) and allow me to complete the whole process w/ minimal > messing around. > > I'm currently looking at <a href=www.partimage.org>partimage</a> as a > solution, but I'm finding it rather cumbersome to install, especially > since I'd like to make these backup images over the network and the > only solution they provide is to install this partimaged server, which > I'd rather not do, b/c I see it as an unecessary complication. > > I've also examined the <a > href=www.systemrescuecd.org>systemrescuecd</a> as a solution for > booting the machines up w/ a pretty functional version of Linux in a > ramdisk, so I'd like to continue w/ that approach. > > So, after all the above description, what do you all use to handle > your image backup procedures (especially when you do not have adequate > harddrive space on the machine to be backed up)? > > Thanks, > > John Lawler
I rsync my entire filesystem to another machine. This is also how I do backups on some machines. I can build identical machines all day long if I want to. Just don't rsync the /proc or /mnt directories. Buy a 200 Gig IDE hard drive, they're $200 (ish). I have a pair of them in drive caddies that get swapped out once a week on the machine that everything gets backed up to. Right now 22 machines get Rsync'd to it. If a machine crashes, or we need a duplicate machine, it takes about 20 minutes, only about 5 of which is hands on. Now across a LAN time isn't that big an issue, across a WAN... well how big is your pipe? -- Michael Gargiullo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Warp Drive Networks -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
