On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:00 PM, drew wymore <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:49 PM, drew wymore <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Michael C. Robinson >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Since you have a network with storage, perhaps setting up Samba and >>>> using Windows built in backup facilities to store the image that is >>>> created on the network? Maybe that would be a viable solution given my >>>> understanding of your network. If you can provide additional details >>>> about exactly how things are laid out specifically in relation to this >>>> particular task then we might be able to offer better tips and >>>> suggestions. >>>> >>>> Drew- >>> >>> Sorry, I didn't know what the acronym meant. I tried googling, but the >>> information I'm getting appears to be very old. I'm trying to build a >>> backup system via network that allows me to do bare metal recovery. >>> I.E., Windows 7 gets trashed and as soon as a new hard drive that >>> works is put in, it is time to restore the last known good copy. >>> >>> Notice I'm not saying reinstall, but restore. In order to restore, >>> potentially to a new hard drive of equal or greater size, there is >>> a need to replace the boot sector and all the data. The backup >>> system isn't just being set up for Windows, my personal system >>> runs Fedora. I'd like to support backing up my brother's Sunflower >>> G3 Mac as well running Mac OSX 10.3 I believe. >>> >>> Right now, I'm trying to get my level 0 raid to persist across reboots. >>> I have a terabyte decimal of storage using two WD PATA 500G hard drives, >>> which is about 900 gigs binary. Last time I rebooted, the hard drives >>> in the raid volume came up as having no superblock. >>> >>> I probably will have to google for this, but off hand, does anyone know >>> if a terabyte exceeds what ext3 can handle for a single filesystem? >>> >>> I'm running CentOS 5.5 on the server. >>> >>> Using dd to create an image is probably not the way to go even for >>> Windows, but I'm not sure if I can trust Linux's NTFS support. I >>> am open to better ways to do a backup, but right now I'm in the can >>> I keep the data storage volume stable across reboots and can I >>> support all of the different systems stage. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> PLUG mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >>> >> >> This might be a better option that dd'ing the drive which seems rather >> ugly (but I get why you're doing it) >> >> http://www.openfiler.com/ or similar. Once I have the funds to build >> up a backup box I'm going with something like this. I'm using a cheap >> Netgear SAN right now. >> >> Drew- >> > > Perhaps yet another FOSS option http://www.clonezilla.org/ > > Drew- >
Reading the docs for clonezilla, that seems like it might be the way to go. Export your NFS partition(s), boot the live CD/USB and write the backup image to it. Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
