Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 full backup software?

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 3:10 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:

On 7/16/2014 12:50 PM, Rafał Radecki wrote:

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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?

For ext2/3/4, use dumpe2fs, for xfs, use xfsdump

If you use dump you'll have to create partitions/filesystems before the restore and reinstall grub yourself. Clonezilla will do that for you. The 'rear' package from EPEL would also likely work although it uses tar for the backup at least by default.