Les Mikesell wrote:
> Stefan Mosleitner wrote:
>   
>> I would like to backup "hot", clonezilla needs to reboot...
>>     
>
> Typically you would do an image copy infrequently, perhaps only when the 
> disk layouts change.  Then you can restore that (usually pretty quick) 
> and drop your current backups on top to bring it up to date.  On windows 
> this may be the only way to get everything.
>
>   
>> Could you explain the tar-possibility a little more in detail..
>>     
>
> Boot a run-from-CD Linux version that can bring up the network 
> interface, use fdisk and mkfs to make partitions and filesystems to 
> approximately match the original layout and mount the filesytems 
> somewhere.  Then cd to the filesystem you want to restore (or what will 
> be the root if you didn't back up by filesystem and have set up the same 
> structure on the new disks), figure out the command line command you 
> need for backuppc to generate a tar file and run it like:
> umask 0
> ssh backuppc_server /path/to/BackupPC_tarCreate -h host -n -1 -s share |
>   tar -xpvf -
>
>
> Then you'll need to run grub to make the new disk bootable.  If you've 
> installed on LVM this becomes a bit more complicated and if you use 
> SELinux you'll need to do something to make it relabel the contexts.
>
>   
mkcdrec can do all this for you itself.

You configure settings
create an ISO
burn it to dvd
boot to it.
Enter rescue mode.
if you want full system recovery - bare metal....
cd /etc/recovery
./start-restore.sh
if you want single filesystem restore....
./clone-dsk.sh

And ofcourse you can still do it all manually and extract from the tar 
files stored on the dvd.

its all documented.

http://mkcdrec.sourceforge.net

Regards,

Les Stott

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