Backup of Redhat (Ghost)

[Rickie]

I am new in Linux. I've just installed a RedHat in my intel PC. I would like
to know how to do the backup of the whole system.

I usually use 'Ghost' (Symantec product) to make an image on Windows PC. I
am wondering whether I can use this method to do the backup and restore on
Redhat. Hope someone has the experience on this. Thanks for any input.

[ne...]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 at 12:25 GMT, Rickie eloquently wrote:

> I am new in Linux. I've just installed a RedHat in my intel PC. I would like
> to know how to do the backup of the whole system.
>
> I usually use 'Ghost' (Symantec product) to make an image on Windows PC. I
> am wondering whether I can use this method to do the backup and restore on
> Redhat. Hope someone has the experience on this. Thanks for any input.

See the thread 'Incremental backups' in comp.os.linux.setup.

HTH.

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[Jean-David Beyer]

Rickie wrote:

> I am new in Linux. I've just installed a RedHat in my intel PC. I would like
> to know how to do the backup of the whole system.
>
> I usually use 'Ghost' (Symantec product) to make an image on Windows PC. I
> am wondering whether I can use this method to do the backup and restore on
> Redhat. Hope someone has the experience on this. Thanks for any input.
>
>

This gets talked about all the time here. Reading old posts would show
you how. Many different ways, in fact. It is my impression that most
people use tar, which makes no sense to me. Bell Labs tried to replace
tar with cpio in the 1980s or early 1990s because of the many
limitations of tar.

Now there are other methods. There once was a program named volcopy that
would copy a whole file system (warts and all) to another file system
(presumably on a different medium, such as another hard drive, tape,
etc). There is a program named dump that I have never bothered with.

I used to use a combination of find and cpio in a shell script run at
night by cron. Now I use a proprietary program named BRU. There are
others. Your biggest problem is probably deciding just what to back up
and how often.

I back up EVERYTHING every day on a bunch of tapes named Monday,
Tuesday, ..., Saturday.
Once a week I back up EVERYTHING on another bunch of tapes named First
Sunday, ..., Fifth Sunday.
Once a month I back up EVERYTHING on another bunch of tapes named
January, ..., December. I keep all but the most recent monthly tape in
the safe deposit box at the bank, and the most recent one in a different
room from the computers.

Had I so much data that it would not fit on a single tape, I would do
incremental dumps during the week and full dumps on Sundays.

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[Will Dormann]

Rickie wrote:

> I am new in Linux. I've just installed a RedHat in my intel PC. I would like
> to know how to do the backup of the whole system.
>
> I usually use 'Ghost' (Symantec product) to make an image on Windows PC. I
> am wondering whether I can use this method to do the backup and restore on
> Redhat. Hope someone has the experience on this. Thanks for any input.

Yes you can, with your bootable CD.


-WD

[mjt]

Rickie wrote:

> I usually use 'Ghost' (Symantec product) to make an image on Windows PC. I

.... [url]http://www.partimage.org/[/url]

and STOP X-POSTING to SO MANY GROUPS!!!
..
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[Rob Ristroph]

>>>>> "wongrickie" == wongrickie <Rickie> writes:

wongrickie>
wongrickie> I am new in Linux. I've just installed a RedHat in my
wongrickie> intel PC. I would like to know how to do the backup of the
wongrickie> whole system.
wongrickie>
wongrickie> I usually use 'Ghost' (Symantec product) to make an image
wongrickie> on Windows PC. I am wondering whether I can use this
wongrickie> method to do the backup and restore on Redhat. Hope
wongrickie> someone has the experience on this. Thanks for any input.

I recommend mondo:

[url]http://mondorescue.org/[/url]

There are RedHat rpms, and it works well on RedHat.

--Rob

[Steve W]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:49:01 -0400, Jean-David Beyer
<jdbeyer@exit109.com> wrote:

>Once a month I back up EVERYTHING on another bunch of tapes named
>January, ..., December. I keep all but the most recent monthly tape in
>the safe deposit box at the bank, and the most recent one in a different
>room from the computers.

Our department was doing this and then decided to limit our
_liability_ too a few months.

It sure beats the alternative of someone coming up wanting an email
from 1996-1997.."I remember there was snow on the ground.. so it was
sometime in the winter.."

[Jean-David Beyer]

Steve W wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:49:01 -0400, Jean-David Beyer
> <jdbeyer@exit109.com> wrote:
>
>

>> Once a month I back up EVERYTHING on another bunch of tapes named
>> January, ..., December. I keep all but the most recent monthly tape
>> in the safe deposit box at the bank, and the most recent one in a
>> different room from the computers.

>
>
> Our department was doing this and then decided to limit our
> _liability_ too a few months.

OK if your attories permit it. Some entities are required to keep them
for as long as statute of limitations laws or court orders require. This
is often for 7 years. (My system only goes back one year; were I
required to keep files longer, I would need 7 more tapes or so.)

>
> It sure beats the alternative of someone coming up wanting an email
> from 1996-1997.."I remember there was snow on the ground.. so it was
> sometime in the winter.."
>

Think about this problem when someone else was administering a system I
used. A file of mine got truncated to only the first 512 bytes. It was a
C source file and the object file was present and it was also in a
library. So no one noticed the source file was damaged for a year or
more. When someone wanted a change in the file, I found it only had the
first few lines. I requested it be restored from backup. But they had
backups for only a month or so, so it could not be recovered.
Disassembling the binary was N.G. because the symbol table (needed for
any meaningful disassembly) was at the end of the file. Too bad.

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