Re: creating images of RAID boxen?

2006-08-20 Thread Kevin Veroneau
Hello, Have you ever checked out the PartImage project? PartImage was part of Debian Woody but was removed in Sarge for reasons which I haven't looked up yet. But PartImage's website has some static binaries as well as source code. http://www.partimage.org/ Kevin. On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:43:

creating images of RAID boxen?

2006-08-16 Thread Kit Peters
For my work, I'm trying to create a system that will create and write disk images.  The way I'm currently doing this is by mounting the existing disk, copying everything in the filesystems on that disk to a directory using 'cp -a', then copying everything from that directory to a new disk by the sa

Re: creating images

2004-11-30 Thread Chris Lale
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 14:31, James LeClair wrote: > Can someone recomend an app, and maybe linkage to docs, for creating an > image of system partition? As well, what about restoring the image in > case of disaster/emergency? > > I just spent the whole weekend rebuilding 2 routers and 1 server:-

Re: creating images

2004-11-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
James LeClair wrote: Can someone recomend an app, and maybe linkage to docs, for creating an image of system partition? As well, what about restoring the image in case of disaster/emergency? I just spent the whole weekend rebuilding 2 routers and 1 server:-( Good learning experience, but at my

Re: creating images

2004-11-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 6:31 am, James LeClair wrote: > Can someone recomend an app, and maybe linkage to docs, for creating an > image of system partition? As well, what about restoring the image in > case of disaster/emergency? dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/path/to/image.img To restore, just switc

Re: creating images

2004-11-30 Thread Laurent CARON
James LeClair wrote: Can someone recomend an app, and maybe linkage to docs, for creating an image of system partition? As well, what about restoring the image in case of disaster/emergency? I just spent the whole weekend rebuilding 2 routers and 1 server:-( Good learning experience, but at my

Re: creating images

2004-11-30 Thread Adam Aube
James LeClair wrote: > Can someone recomend an app, and maybe linkage to docs, for creating an > image of system partition? As well, what about restoring the image in > case of disaster/emergency? System Imager may be what you are looking for. http://www.systemimager.org It's also in Debian. A

Re: creating images

2004-11-30 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:31:09 -0400, James LeClair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone recomend an app, and maybe linkage to docs, for creating an > image of system partition? As well, what about restoring the image in > case of disaster/emergency? > > I just spent the whole weekend rebuilding

creating images

2004-11-30 Thread James LeClair
Can someone recomend an app, and maybe linkage to docs, for creating an image of system partition? As well, what about restoring the image in case of disaster/emergency? I just spent the whole weekend rebuilding 2 routers and 1 server:-( Good learning experience, but at my age, I'd prefer to sp