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> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ruslan Sivak
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 17:57
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Backup
>
> We have a RHEL2 server that has had one of the drives in the
> raid array
> fail. I would like to do a full backup of the system before
> we replace
> the raided drive, in case the second drive decides to die during the
> procedure.
>
> What is the recommended way to back up a linux system? I was
> thinking
> of doing a snapshot, but the system is ext3 with no LVM. It has been
> suggested to hook up a usb drive and do an rsync of /. Are there any
> better solutions?
>
> The reason I wanted a snapshot is that I wanted to get an
> image of the
> disk, so that I wouldn't have to reinstall and reconfigure
> all the apps.
>
> Russ
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