Re: [gentoo-server] Imaging software for a production server

[Kirk Hoganson]

I use mkcdrec to make backups of my production servers.  It works well 
for our purposes.  It doesn't make an exact image, but it makes a 
bootable iso that can be used to restore everything on the system.

Luca Dell'Oca said the following:
> Hi all,
> I have a couple of gentoo servers that I cannot shutdown for
> maintenance. In the past, I've used Acronis trueimage on my windows
> machines in order to create images of the drives, and I love the fact I
> do not need to shutdown the machine to create the image, and the image
> can be saved on the same partition I'm ghosting.
> I've tried several program for linux, but none of them seem to have the
> same features: partimage can backup live systems, but it cannot create
> the file on the same partition I'm ghosting and it creates different
> files for every partition, and all the other softwares have their own
> liveCD to boot from, but in this way I have to shutdown the server.
>
> Acronis has a linux version of trueimage, but it needs X to run, and I
> do not want to install it on a mail or web server, and gentoo is not
> supported, so I think it could be a PITA to install it.
>
> Any suggestion, maybe also some script able to copy also the mbr?
>
> Thanks,
> Luca, Italy
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