Sagi Bashari wrote: > > On 10/14/2002 12:37 PM, Erez Boym wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >What would be the way to backup an entire system ? > > > >I have a server which I need too backup, a complete > >backup setups, *-conf, data, everything and then to > >easily rebuild the entire server back from scratch. > > > >Would it be enough to copy the entire file system on > >to DVDs, Tape etc. and then reinstall Linux and copy > >the entire file system back in or do I need a tool > >like "Ghost" ? > > > > If you really want to backup the whole setup and not only the data, you > might want to consider using HDD as backup media. > > Simply add new HDD to the system and use 'dd' to make exact backup. Then > if one HDD will fail, just replace it with the backup HDD. > > Sagi
Of course, any disk copy, block-by-block and not file-by-file, must be done when the disk is frozen, i.e. either unmounted or in Single mode when nobody writes to the disk. Unless you have LVM with Freeze options. -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-23-7338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
