Re: backup with dd

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Hiep Nguyen wrote:
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Clonezilla-live is a boot-from CD linux that will copy just the used
portions of the disk and can save to another disk or image files on local disks or over the network. I'd recommend it over dd, but maybe someone has
a way to do LVM snapshots so the copy can be done without a reboot.


I'm downloading the .iso for clonezilla-live now. It's a very small
download. 81.2 MB


i don't know if this is possible, but assume my centos box's motherboard goes sour, can i just take its hard drive and put on similar pc?

The disk is probably the most likely single thing to fail, but within some constraints you can move the disk around - and the same issues apply to image copies and backups. The main thing is that the driver for the disk controller has to be included in the kernel or initrd, so for example, moving a scsi disk with the boot/root partitions to a machine with a different controller will be a problem. You can fix this with some contortions to rebuild the initrd with the right modules from a rescue mode CD boot. You may also have to reconfigure the display if you have a different video card or monitor but you can normally run in text mode while doing that.

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  Les Mikesell
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