one can use g4u give you exact functionality like Acronics. But no gui. Download g4u.iso and fire cd. boot from the g4u bootable cd and can create ghost image over the network. On 12/15/06, Michael Christian <mchristianjr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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 > -- Michael S. Christian Jr. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
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