Re: [CentOS] backup with dd

2008-06-27 Thread Hiep Nguyen
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiep Nguyen wrote: hi all, i have a centos box and would like to back up just in case the hard drive fail. one way to do this is duplicate the image of the hard drive, so if the

Re: [CentOS] backup with dd

2008-06-27 Thread Les Mikesell
Hiep Nguyen wrote: Clonezilla-live is a boot-from CD linux that will copy just the used portions of the disk and can save to another disk or image files on local disks or over the network. I'd recommend it over dd, but maybe someone has a way to do LVM snapshots so the copy can be done

[CentOS] backup with dd

2008-06-25 Thread Hiep Nguyen
hi all, i have a centos box and would like to back up just in case the hard drive fail. one way to do this is duplicate the image of the hard drive, so if the hard drive fail, just remove it and put mirrored hard drive and done. here my system info: uname -a Linux jadenet.jadesterling.com

Re: [CentOS] backup with dd

2008-06-25 Thread Les Mikesell
Hiep Nguyen wrote: hi all, i have a centos box and would like to back up just in case the hard drive fail. one way to do this is duplicate the image of the hard drive, so if the hard drive fail, just remove it and put mirrored hard drive and done. here my system info: uname -a Linux

Re: [CentOS] backup with dd

2008-06-25 Thread John R Pierce
Les Mikesell wrote: Clonezilla-live is a boot-from CD linux that will copy just the used portions of the disk and can save to another disk or image files on local disks or over the network. I'd recommend it over dd, but maybe someone has a way to do LVM snapshots so the copy can be done

Re: [CentOS] backup with dd

2008-06-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 12:07 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: snip i've generally used dump(8) and restore(8) to image ext2/3FS this can even be used to do an incremental dump although I rarely do that. while i've never tried this, in theory, if you're using LVM, you can snapshot a

Re: [CentOS] backup with dd

2008-06-25 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiep Nguyen wrote: hi all, i have a centos box and would like to back up just in case the hard drive fail. one way to do this is duplicate the image of the hard drive, so if the hard drive fail, just remove it and put