[ale] Re: Online Backup

[gchendry at bellsouth.net]

I have been using partimage, works well.
Note: 
Partimage images 1 partition at a time, not an entire hard drive.
Will work with NTFS as long as the partition is not very fragmented.
Will not image a mounted partition.

Depending on how you partitioned your hard drive and what applications are running where will depend if you can keep your system up and running while using partimage.

Good Uses:
When installing the same os (LINUX or MS :( ) on multiple similar machines, I install it once, use partimage to create an image and then restore that image to the other machines.  Note must copy the boot sector via dd if=/dev/??? of=outfile count=512


Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:20:11 -0500, Nick Travis <wormfishin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Is there a way to create a full system backup, simular to a ghost
>>image, of a linux server remotely without taking the server offline?
>>Could you do something like "tar -cf my-system.tar * "?  Or would this
>>fail due to files changing as the tar was being created.  Could rsync
>>be used, I was thinking it would have to same problem of files
>>changing though while it was syncing.  It's a pretty basic system, no
>>databases or anything, just dhcp named and a firewall.
>>
>>Nick
> 
>  
> I have not used it, but partimage is supposed to be similar to ghost.
> 
> I'm not sure what filesystems it supports, nor if it works online.
> 
> Greg
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