Jonathan Haws wrote:
On Sunday March 2 2008 16:43, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
Right - what you intend the backup to protect against drives all this
sort of stuff.
The thing that is driving my backups is a hard disk failure. Hence I was
using Ghost instead of something else so I can backup the entire drive and
not just a single partition. That enables the quickest recovery of the
entire system in the event of a failure.
I have looked everywhere I can think of to find a tool that is similar to
Ghost that will backup the entire hard drive to an image that I can put to
DVD, without including free blocks on the disk (I don't want an 80GB image of
an 80GB drive when only 5GB are in use at the time). Does anyone know of a
tool capable of this that runs on Linux and has FULL Linux fs support?
I actually think that 'dump' will do what you want... provided you can
choose a time when the machine is not busy (should be easy if it's your
desktop!). You have to do 1 dump per filesystem, but many desktop
installations only consist of / (+ maybe /boot) anyway. Also dump of a
80Gb system that only uses 5Gb will produce a 5Gb image.... Also it can
do incremental an cumulative backups.
Some friends of mine use Amanda to backup their (Redhat/Centos) servers,
that may worth looking at too.
Cheers
Mark
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