On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 10:08:23AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>Rajesh Fowkar rearranged electrons thusly:
>
>> We infact wanted to backup entire hard disk. If we use tar than it creates
>> problems for /proc since we are backing from /. We have copied lot of stuff
>
>That is, you are running out of RAM if you do this - /proc is only in memory.
>Do it in smaller bits instead of taking a dump of everything ... back it up
>partition by partition.
Ok. Thanks.
>
>(or use dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1 etc etc if you can find a hard disk of
>similar capacity, and formatted similarly ...)
No need of this. We have RAID1 configured. So second Hard Disk of similar capacity is
always mirroring the data from First Hard Disk. Tape backup is just a secondary
measure if some problem happens to RAID.
There is one backup utility called Taper. We are now trying with that.
Rajesh
>
> +suresh
>
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