Check this recent thread: RE: Recommended tool for doing Linux system dumps
Chris
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Here are a couple of options for you:
Mondo Rescue - http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ G4U - http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
HTH!
- Christopher
-----Original Message----- From: Ken Rossman [mailto:rossman@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 3:11 PM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Recommended tool for doing Linux system dumps
What should I be using to do full system dumps of a RedHat Linux system
these days? I've been blithely using 'dump', but I've only just discovered
that this is a no-no. Other tools I've used have other problems (i.e. in
older version of 'tar', I know that sparse files had their "holes" filled
in with zeros, and I'm still not exactly sure what 'tar' does with device
special files... same for any other tool).
I want to be able to do a full restore of a working system directly from a backup set of some kind, including all protections being put back the way they were, device special files being properly restored, symlinks remaining symlinks, and sparse files retaining their exact original format (and who knows what else I'm not thinking of right now).
Is something like gtar smart enough to do this these days? Can cpio do it?
Am I missing a tool here?
Thanks, Ken
Ian L wrote:
Is there any utility out there to do an exact copy from one drive to another? the source is about 200k bigger in size then the destination drive, with plenty of free space on it.
They are both 'identical' drives, wd1200jb but apparently the newer one is slightly different, as it shows up as about 200k smaller. I need a way to copy the source drive onto the smaller one so that i can set up a raid mirror. i have another wd drive thats the same size as the smaller of the two.
Ian
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