Thank you very much,

the link works fine.
I'll try those programms an will write back i fit works - or not.

Mike


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Hi Michael,

> Thanks for your comment.
> 
> 1. to Michael: Mondo Rescue sounds interesting, but ist not longer
available
> (the website is down)

You can go to the freshmeat site:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/mondorescue/

to still down it. I last looked at this project about 3 months ago, and the
main .org website was running, not sure what's happened to it.

> 2. the TAR-Variant is a interesting solution, but is there any 
> option do backup the system "live"?

If you're looking for "backups", there's also many other alternatives
including:

* rdiffbackup

* bontmia

which use rsync with hardlinking to provide incremental backups of your
filesystems.

Michael.

> Mike
> 
> On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, Michael Mansour wrote:
> 
> > Hi Michael,
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > i have some problems with my installation.
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > > I should be possible to run a disaster Recovery, which means that I
can
> > > restore the complete System with its old configuration.
> > > 
> > > Can I use TAR?
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > > 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
> > 
> > There's so many possibilities for this, but I'd start by looking at
> projects like:
> > 
> > * Mondo Rescue
> > 
> > * Ghost for Linux (g4u or g4l)
> >
> 
> Do these support LVM?
> 
> -Connie Sieh
> 
> > Michael.
> > 
> > > Mike
> > > 
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