Try this
attach one more hdd with same capacity to the server.
Boot from rescue disk.
give command like
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=1024
will make image of hda to hdb just use any of them will work.
But you need down time for maintenance
On 12/10/06, mark <mroth@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Michael Schwartz wrote:
> But will this image copy? I need the entire operating system,
> everything that will allow me to take the copy HD and just replace the
> working HD and not go through any kind of special booting procedures.
I'm not sure you want that, perfectly, unless you'll be putting it on
another *identical* machine, same motherboard and CPU (and same
revisions on both).
mark
>
> Michael
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "mark" <mroth@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 20:23
> Subject: Re: Disk Image Backup
>
>
>> Michael Schwartz wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a legacy (RH 7.2) system and need to make an image copy of the
>>> hard drive. If this machine goes down (hard drive gone) there is no
>>> way for me to rebuild the applications. Can anyone out there help
>>> please?
>>
>> Um, buy a small hard drive (the newest big ones won't be recognized
>> properly by the older machine's bios), put it on IDE2, shut the apps
>> down, and copy all of that (*eigh*, except for /dev....)
>>
>> mark
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