From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JWOvt-00079L-8P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:39:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3671DE0513; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 04:39:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp5.clear.net.nz (smtp5.clear.net.nz [203.97.33.68]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAD76E0513 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 04:39:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zmori.markir.net (121-72-69-134.dsl.telstraclear.net [121.72.69.134]) by smtp5.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0JX6002O9VLDIK10@smtp5.clear.net.nz> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:39:14 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:39:12 +1300 From: Mark Kirkwood Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition In-reply-to: <200803031317.30818.Jonathan.Haws@sdl.usu.edu> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <47CCD270.9080200@paradise.net.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <200802291227.35724.Jonathan.Haws@sdl.usu.edu> <20080302134300.GL9879@avlebavle.dk> <47CB3BBF.9040801@paradise.net.nz> <200803031317.30818.Jonathan.Haws@sdl.usu.edu> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071203) X-Archives-Salt: ba599501-f956-4301-b1d4-58c33c0c1cbb X-Archives-Hash: be4e43e930a8f0896e5309b1d1ea3980 Jonathan Haws wrote: > On Sunday March 2 2008 16:43, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > >> Right - what you intend the backup to protect against drives all this >> sort of stuff. >> > > The thing that is driving my backups is a hard disk failure. Hence I was > using Ghost instead of something else so I can backup the entire drive and > not just a single partition. That enables the quickest recovery of the > entire system in the event of a failure. > > I have looked everywhere I can think of to find a tool that is similar to > Ghost that will backup the entire hard drive to an image that I can put to > DVD, without including free blocks on the disk (I don't want an 80GB image of > an 80GB drive when only 5GB are in use at the time). Does anyone know of a > tool capable of this that runs on Linux and has FULL Linux fs support? > > I actually think that 'dump' will do what you want... provided you can choose a time when the machine is not busy (should be easy if it's your desktop!). You have to do 1 dump per filesystem, but many desktop installations only consist of / (+ maybe /boot) anyway. Also dump of a 80Gb system that only uses 5Gb will produce a 5Gb image.... Also it can do incremental an cumulative backups. Some friends of mine use Amanda to backup their (Redhat/Centos) servers, that may worth looking at too. Cheers Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list