[gentoo-server] Imaging software for a production server

[Luca Dell'Oca]

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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