If you have the money, the Acronix Linus Server works like a charm for us. Create a bootable CD and image all of your other servers as well. On 12/11/06, Allen Chen <achen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This idea is the best. nilesh vaghela wrote: > 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> >> > To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> >> > 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 >> >> >> >> -- >> >> redhat-list mailing list >> >> unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx ?subject=unsubscribe >> >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list >> >> >> > >> >> -- >> redhat-list mailing list >> unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list >> > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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