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 > > > > > > \\|// > > > > > > (o o) > > > > > > ---------oOOo-(_)-oOOo---------- > > > > > > E-Mail: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] > > ------- End of Original Message ------- > > ------- End of Original Message -------