complete system backup

[Nostradamus]

I want to make a complete backup of our redhat enterprise linux 2.1 system.
I've used cpio before to make complete backups of our SCO Openserver system and put that on tape.

What clever commands are there for making complete system backups? Preferably putting it on a local filysystem for later transfer to tape.

I want to be able to boot using floppys. mount a tape or device and restore my system using this. Hope you understand what I want to accomplish.

/Sören

 

[patrckb]

FWIW, I've used Ghost 8.0 to make a disk image of a Red Hat 9 complete server. And I was able to successfuly restore it.

I did find out the hard way that you have to have Ghost 8.0 to image and restore RH 9.

We're in the process of ordering RHEL 3.0 now. I'm not sure about it.

Good luck!
Patrick

Patrick Bartkus, CCNP, CNX, SCM Sr. Network Engineer
GA Dept of Labor IT Network Services
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[aixmurderer]

Storix has a very good solution to this. The free version is a bit restrictive, e.g. you cannot backup to disk, only tape, also no LVM backups, but it will create you either floppy boot images or a bootable CD ISO iamge to restore a system from a tape backup.

The cost of a license for a standalone version is well worth it, you can basically do anything, even restore a system to a different hardware platform.

http://www.storix.com

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[Nostradamus]

I have been considering Ghost, since we use that already. Haven't found out if our version has support for linux and their filesystems though. I'll look into that, because Ghost is such a brilliant tool.

aixmurderer: I'll take a look at storix, if our ghost-version doesn't support linux/redhat.

Thanks alot for you help.

/Sören