Re: Partition image on the fly
On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 11:15 -0300, tomlobato wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
> It is possible to make partition image on the fly? With the system (*Linux
> server) running?
>
> I think in the aproach: At midnigth (less system use), the script remounts
> partition readonly by some minutes while put the output of 'dd if=/dev/...'
> to a file in another HD on the same machine. Some word? Some trouble in do
> so?
dd? Only if the restore-partition is the *exact* same size, right?
> * The server is running several services like internet, mail, web, jabber,
> mysql. I want to make a diary backup of it. Hardware resources are not
> problem, I can use another machine, or DVD writer or another HD or the three
> options together.
Have you looked at amanda? It's in the Debian repository.
> If it is not possible, what do you think about mount the system from
> another system in the LAN via NFS, and use simple 'cp -R /mnt/nfs-server/
> /backup/'? Obviously excluding dirs like /proc, /mnt, etc.
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