Hi Michael,

> Thank you very much,
> 
> the link works fine.
> I'll try those programms an will write back i fit works - or not.

So you know, I use bontmia for all my production backups and have been for
over a year. It's not updated much and is basically just a script, but it
"just works" and does what I need.

rdiffbackup is updated frequently, works in the same way as bontmia but
creates diffs of a base rsync.

Michael.

> 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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