Re: Backing up a running system

2005-01-01 Thread Robert S
> Try Mondorescue... > I've finally gone for Mondorescue. I compiled the latest version from source (have Woody) - the Woody version seems to have a few "issues". Thanks for the suggestions. Apart from a bit of lack of polish, it does things that commercial products (eg. Norton Ghost) doesn't

Re: Backing up a running system

2004-12-29 Thread Mateusz Łoskot
User Sebastiaan wrote:: On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Robert S wrote: [...] Is there a way of doing this (preferably remotely) without unmounting the filesystem (like the new version of Norton Ghost is able to do in Windows)? I would write an image from the partitions. If you have no 'spare' disks in the co

Re: Backing up a running system

2004-12-28 Thread Brad Sims
Try Mondorescue... It works great, and is GPL. -- Opium is the religion of the atheist. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backing up a running system

2004-12-28 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:02:00 +1100, Robert S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there a way of doing this (preferably remotely) without unmounting the > >> filesystem (like the new version of Norton Ghost is able to do in > >> Windows)? > > > > A backup is easily done with dd, for example: > > dd i

Re: Backing up a running system

2004-12-28 Thread Robert S
>> Is there a way of doing this (preferably remotely) without unmounting the >> filesystem (like the new version of Norton Ghost is able to do in >> Windows)? > > A backup is easily done with dd, for example: > dd if=/dev/sda1 bs=1M | gzip -c9 > /media/usbdrive/sda1.bin.gz > > When restoring you m

Re: Backing up a running system

2004-12-28 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:56:18 +1100, Robert S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a debian (woody) server running at work and would like to back up the > entire system onto some sort of removable media (USB hard drive, DVD, > removable harddrive etc). I do daily backups of /etc and /home using tar,

Re: Backing up a running system

2004-12-28 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Robert S wrote: > I have a debian (woody) server running at work and would like to back up the > entire system onto some sort of removable media (USB hard drive, DVD, > removable harddrive etc). I do daily backups of /etc and /home using tar, > but would like to be able