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Jonathan Haws wrote: |
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> On Sunday March 2 2008 16:43, Mark Kirkwood wrote: |
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>> Right - what you intend the backup to protect against drives all this |
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>> sort of stuff. |
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> The thing that is driving my backups is a hard disk failure. Hence I was |
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> using Ghost instead of something else so I can backup the entire drive and |
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> not just a single partition. That enables the quickest recovery of the |
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> entire system in the event of a failure. |
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> I have looked everywhere I can think of to find a tool that is similar to |
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> Ghost that will backup the entire hard drive to an image that I can put to |
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> DVD, without including free blocks on the disk (I don't want an 80GB image of |
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> an 80GB drive when only 5GB are in use at the time). Does anyone know of a |
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> tool capable of this that runs on Linux and has FULL Linux fs support? |
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I actually think that 'dump' will do what you want... provided you can |
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choose a time when the machine is not busy (should be easy if it's your |
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desktop!). You have to do 1 dump per filesystem, but many desktop |
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installations only consist of / (+ maybe /boot) anyway. Also dump of a |
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80Gb system that only uses 5Gb will produce a 5Gb image.... Also it can |
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do incremental an cumulative backups. |
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Some friends of mine use Amanda to backup their (Redhat/Centos) servers, |
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that may worth looking at too. |
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Cheers |
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Mark |
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