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Re: Hot-backup a complete Debian install



first of all, sorry G i can't understand your point.

well,
i can tell you about one of my experiences that can explain some points of
your question.
i had a machine with a scsi disk and linux installed, someday i started to
experience some i/o errors on that disk so i have to migrate the instalation.
so, i was looking for another scsi disk, but i only found an ide one.
the result was: 
_ i backup the scsi partitions in the ide partitions (made by hand, equal or
greater size) with tar.
_ modified the fstab to match the root and the others new devices with mount
points.(/dev/sdax --> /dev/hdax)
_ update the bootloader and mbr!!
_ reboot..

.. and voila! all in the last place before the errors...

it's not lvm but i hope some concepts helps you.
if the point is about file level backup tar (i think) is good.
a block level backup could be 'dd'

good luck.



Roman Medina <roman@rs-labs.com> dijo:

> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 11:42:25 -0000, you wrote:
> 
> >which is the backup target media?
> 
>  Hard-disk. The idea is to have another logical partition for backups
> and then some scripts to upload/download to any secure site (I could
> use rsync over ssh or simply scp). But the uploading is a second step.
> Now I'd like to deal with the first stage: the dump process.
> 
>  Another question: for restoring a backup, do I need to create (fdisk)
> a destination partition with the exact same size of the original?
> Could I use a greater one? (in this case, would I lose disk-space or
> the filesystem is "expanded" accordingly?).
> 
>  Finally, the 3rd stage: if you're going to save the backup files in
> an "non-trusty" machine, which kind of container / encryption software
> would you use? This would need to be easily scriptable, for automatize
> the backup task.
> 
>  Thanks to all the contributors of this thread!
> 
>  Regards,
>  --Roman
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