Yes, rear sounds resonable ;) I will try it also, thanks.
BR,
Rafal.
2014-07-17 19:30 GMT+02:00 Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Rafał Radecki <radecki.rafal@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > I need a block level backup because I need an easy to restore backup of
> the
> > whole server, including mbr, partition layout and of course data. The
> > server will be reinstalled so filesystem level backup is an option but
> not
> > as straightforward and easy to restore as for example Clonezilla.
> >
>
> The 'rear' (Relax-and-Recover) package from EPEL is about as easy to
> use but with a different approach. It will generate a bootable iso
> containing a script to reconstruct the partitions, filesystems, etc.
> and restore to them. Some tradeoffs are that Clonezilla will do
> single disks and bring along windows or other partitions not part of
> the active system, but can't handle multiple drives or RAID and it
> needs at least an equal-sized disk for the restore. ReaR can make
> its backup without shutting the running system down, understands
> raid/lvm, etc., but only the linux filesystems - and with some work
> you can modify the disk layout/sizes before the restore. ReaR is a
> reasonable tool to do conversions to VM's, etc., where you are likely
> to want to rearrange the layout or remove software raid, although you
> have to manually edit the layout description file.
>
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