I find that dd, rsync, and tar all work. dd is good if you want to copy the entire partition (including the empty blocks) and the target partition is the same size. So both systems should be on a LAN since lots of data will be copied.
rsync is good if you remember not to copy the /proc filesystem and you can selectively exclude that along with a few other things to save time such as /var/log/* files. tar I find to be handy when used with pipes: tar cf - / | (cd /copy; tar xf - ) both tar and rsync can be told to stick to one file system so you can for example copy the root file system and stop it from recursing down into mounted filesystems, for example when you want to copy / and ignore what is mounted at /boot and /home. Rsync has ssh built in for copying across networks. You can pipe tar through ssh too. I left out 'scp'. I think for copying masses of files that rsync and tar are better suited. They know how to be smart about things like symlinks without being told what to do. Brian On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Michael Mertel wrote: > Hi there, > > is someone using the Acronis True Image Server Backup-Software on TSL > 3.0? Or does someone has another option for creating live backup-images > of a running TSL system? > > TIA > > --Michael > _______________________________________________ > tsl-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss > -- Brian Wilson Corvallis, Oregon 541-368-4120 _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
