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Hi! |
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Maybe you could use 'dd if=/dev/hdx of=/path/to/destination/file' or |
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something similar though you have to choose another partition for the image. |
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Marton Gabor |
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<gabor.marton@××××××××××.hu>,<ICQ UIN: 169394884>,<T: +36 30 447-2042> |
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VE-MIK |
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VeHoK informatikai megbizott |
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informatika-l adminisztrator |
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bsc-info szerkeszto |
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gazdinfo szerkeszto |
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Luca Dell'Oca wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I have a couple of gentoo servers that I cannot shutdown for |
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> maintenance. In the past, I've used Acronis trueimage on my windows |
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> machines in order to create images of the drives, and I love the fact |
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> I do not need to shutdown the machine to create the image, and the |
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> image can be saved on the same partition I'm ghosting. |
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> I've tried several program for linux, but none of them seem to have |
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> the same features: partimage can backup live systems, but it cannot |
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> create the file on the same partition I'm ghosting and it creates |
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> different files for every partition, and all the other softwares have |
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> their own liveCD to boot from, but in this way I have to shutdown the |
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> server. |
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> Acronis has a linux version of trueimage, but it needs X to run, and I |
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> do not want to install it on a mail or web server, and gentoo is not |
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> supported, so I think it could be a PITA to install it. |
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> Any suggestion, maybe also some script able to copy also the mbr? |
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> Thanks, |
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> Luca, Italy |
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