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 > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > 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 ------- ------- End of Original Message -------