Re: Backing up a running system
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:56:18 +1100, Robert S <robert_s@emailme.net.au> wrote:
> I have a debian (woody) server running at work and would like to back up the
> entire system onto some sort of removable media (USB hard drive, DVD,
> removable harddrive etc). I do daily backups of /etc and /home using tar,
> but would like to be able to restore my system quickly in the event of a
> disaster. I don't change things much on my system, so I'd only need to do
> this once every 6 months or so.
>
> To date I've been using partimage - but that requires that the partition
> being backed up is unmounted. I've done a bit of googling, but haven't
> found something that fits the bill.
>
> Is there a way of doing this (preferably remotely) without unmounting the
> filesystem (like the new version of Norton Ghost is able to do in Windows)?
>
I think you can find this question answered in this list archive,
anyway i think you can check the mondo/mindi packages.
Andrea
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