On 10/14/2002 1:10 PM, Eli Marmor wrote: >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. > > > What if you setup two disks in RAID1 and pull one of the disks for backup and insert new one instead?
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