If you simply boot from the install CD in rescue mode, mount your NFS 
file system and tar the root mounted under /mnt/sysimage (with 
compression if you please) to the NFS volume you should acheive what you 
need.  Needless to say you can then reverse the process if necessary.


Michael Mansour wrote:

>Hi Michael,
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>>Hi,
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>>i have some problems with my installation.
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>>I use SL4 as a Server system with an LVM Storage for System and 
>>Data. And now I want so backup the whole Hard drive to an image File 
>>stored on a LAN-NFS-Server.
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>>I should be possible to run a disaster Recovery, which means that I can
>>restore the complete System with its old configuration.
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>>Can I use TAR?
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>>My Hard Drive has a capacity about approximately 140 Gbyte. When I 
>>use "dd" the Image file has also 140 Gbyte, but only 51 Gbyte are 
>>currently used.
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>>Which command or program can I use for Backup only the 51 Gbyte 
>>instead of 140 (I do not want to backup free space).
>>
>>Thanks for help
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>There's so many possibilities for this, but I'd start by looking at projects like:
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>* Mondo Rescue
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>* Ghost for Linux (g4u or g4l)
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>Michael.
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>>Mike
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