I use multiple tools to image linux system only (my best one is mondo) , 1- use Mondo Rescue to clone linux systems: http://www.mondorescue.org in order to image your system and create bootable CD/DVD download mondo for your distro ftp://ftp.mondorescue.org more info read this manual http://www.mondorescue.org/docs/mondorescue-howto.pdf 2- You can use dd also. dd if=/dev/somedisk of=/dev/somedestination 3- rsync scripting 4- netcat On the source server: (cd / && tar -cvf - ) | nc 192.168.1.2 2000 On the destination:: nc -l -p 2000 | tar -xvf - 5- http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:34 PM, sunhux G <sunhux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Can Mondo or Clonezilla take an image backup online, ie > without shutting down Linux? > > Some commercial image backup tools like Acronis could take > online backup of "open" files without the need to shut down & > boot up the Linux box from a CD. > > Acronis is good in that even 'raw' or some sort of special SAN partition > or OCFS or Oracle RAC filesystems could be backup'ed as well. Does > Mondo / clonezilla have these features? > -- > 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