From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EB8zj-0008Mp-LC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:42:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j82AbcQa027703; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 10:37:38 GMT Received: from juhar.mail.t-online.hu ([195.228.240.92]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j82Abb13025539 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 10:37:38 GMT Received: from [81.182.8.58] (dsl51B6083A.pool.t-online.hu [81.182.8.58]) by juhar.mail.t-online.hu (8.13.2/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j82AeBEc008444 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 12:40:11 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <43182C06.5030403@vehok.vein.hu> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 12:40:06 +0200 From: Marton Gabor User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050724) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-server@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-server@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Imaging software for a production server References: <200508181509.28863.michael@irey.org> <43146570.9060902@cs.ubishops.ca> <431481C2.6020207@imperium.org> <43181888.30402@food4brain.org> In-Reply-To: <43181888.30402@food4brain.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-VBMilter: scanned X-Archives-Salt: 70a1da1f-80d0-4950-8dc5-00e29cce3f3a X-Archives-Hash: 89fc3ba75987c6fdc4de82ed53d47c4c 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 ,, VE-MIK VeHoK informatikai megbizott informatika-l adminisztrator bsc-info szerkeszto gazdinfo szerkeszto 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 -- gentoo-server@gentoo.org mailing list