I've had good results using Clonezilla for complete backup of OS+data.
It backs up entire disks/partitions, so includes everything including
configuration files, tweaks etc. It is fast compared to something like
Ghost, and can backup to devices (USB stick or external HDD) or a
network location. Restores are also fast and have been flawless to date
(restoring to identical hardware).
If you want to restore an entire system in all its detail in one quick
operation, something like Clonezilla is worth investigating.
http://www.clonezilla.org/
or Google "Gparted-clonezilla" as many versions of Clonezilla are
packaged on a Live CD with Gparted.
Gergely Buday wrote:
Dear CentOs users,
I have a centos server with nothing important at the moment, but I
would like to install some web-based project management tool (trac for
the curious) that would contain important data. And, as my network is
growing the configuration of the server is becoming complex. I would
like to have a proper backup so that I can restore the whole system
easily, should any problem occur. What do you recommend?
I'm not an expert on this, so my first idea is that I could do a per
application backup and create a tar file of the /etc. The latter
especially could be too naive. And, a push-the-button method that
handles all in once, not depending on the app number would be much
better.
Another thing: how I could do this to be safe across a centos upgrade?
- Gergely
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