Hello, I've been using systemimager[1] for network installation. You can use it as will to backup the whole system. It also support torrent, multicast and ssh transports.
Creating image(aka. goldenclient): 1. si_prepareclient --server server --image myimagename Updating system: 2. si_updateclient --server server --image myimagename [1]http://wiki.systemimager.org ----- Original Message ---- From: "david t. asuncion, jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 1:21:19 AM Subject: Re: [plug] backup system to ISO image Noob here. Won't MONDO handle the same task? On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Zak B. Elep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Nhadie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a tool i can use to fully backup a system to an ISO image and > preserve all files? > So that if ever something happens to any of my server, i can simply > reinstall from the ISO image, no need for me to do reconfiguration on > the services running on it. I would suggest looking at an archival storage solution like Venti-backup[0], which can enable you to do daily snapshots of your server filesystem to a remote Venti[1] server (whose arena partitions you can burn to CD/DVD, as soon as you fill up one, as Venti also coalesce duplicate used blocks for free due to its content-addressing approach to storage.) Recovery is almost always just an easy mount of the remote Venti (as an NFSv3 server,) selecting the snapshot to use (e.g. 2008/0923) and a recursive copy. If you find that too way over your head (I admit its a very Plan 9-ish way of doing it, but its very solid, and the sources tree has it running for the last 6 years now,) you can also try glastree[2] or pdumpfs[3] which work in similar ways (except they don't do block coalescing, as they back up at the filesystem level.) There's also the upcoming Foundation,[4] but it has yet to be presented at USENIX. [0] http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man8/vbackup.html [1] http://cm.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/venti/venti.html [2] http://old.igmus.org/code/ [3] http://0xcc.net/pdumpfs/index.html.en [4] http://swtch.com/~rsc/papers/fndn/ -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph -- David Tacasa Asuncion, Jr. website keeper, forever linux newbie, BUM extraordinaire Linux User # 406430 http://counter.li.org/ GPG: 0A024BC0
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