I am making backup of the mentioned machine because I need to install a virtualization software on the same hardware. I think that I will use containers with cgroups this time, usually I use kvm, so it will be somewhat faster and I will be able to get some experience with LXC (untill now I used OpenVZ and am not a fan of it ;) ).
Overall thanks for all help, I will use CloneZilla :)
Have a nice day!
R.
2014-07-16 22:54 GMT+02:00 Brian Miller centos@fullnote.com:
On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 21:50 +0200, Rafał Radecki wrote:
Hi All ;)
I need a good tool to backup whole system on block level rather than file level and easy to use. I currently need to backup to an USB disc (50+ GB
of
data) a system and then reinstall it. In the future if needed I will
revert
to the system from backup ;)
What can you recommend?
'dd'. I use it routinely when doing p2v migrations of older hardware and when migrating heavily customized systems between hardware.
Which brings up the point maybe you might want to investigate virtualization options if you strongly suspect you'll have a requirement to revert via a bare metal restoration procecure.
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