Re: [gentoo-server] Imaging software for a production server

[Marton Gabor <gabor.marton@vehok.vein.hu>]

Hi!

Maybe you could use 'dd if=/dev/hdx of=/path/to/destination/file' or 
something similar though you have to choose another partition for the image.

Marton Gabor
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Luca Dell'Oca wrote:

> Hi all,
> I have a couple of gentoo servers that I cannot shutdown for 
> maintenance. In the past, I've used Acronis trueimage on my windows 
> machines in order to create images of the drives, and I love the fact 
> I do not need to shutdown the machine to create the image, and the 
> image can be saved on the same partition I'm ghosting.
> I've tried several program for linux, but none of them seem to have 
> the same features: partimage can backup live systems, but it cannot 
> create the file on the same partition I'm ghosting and it creates 
> different files for every partition, and all the other softwares have 
> their own liveCD to boot from, but in this way I have to shutdown the 
> server.
>
> Acronis has a linux version of trueimage, but it needs X to run, and I 
> do not want to install it on a mail or web server, and gentoo is not 
> supported, so I think it could be a PITA to install it.
>
> Any suggestion, maybe also some script able to copy also the mbr?
>
> Thanks,
> Luca, Italy


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