[CentOS] Full server restore-point image

[Les Mikesell]

Alain Reguera Delgado wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> After some months of configuring and testing a small server, think
> that would be nice to make a full server restore-point image in order
> to recover it if something goes wrong in the future, just restoring
> the image back and not making the full install and configure process
> all over again. The server uses Logical Volumes.
> 
> I was thinking on using the CentOS LiveCD and then use dd command to
> clone all partitions to another storage device. But I have no
> experience on this.
> 
> What do you suggest ?

Yes, if you have an identical drive, booting a CD and dd'ing the whole 
image is an easy way to do it.  You can use the install CD if you enter 
'linux rescue' at the boot prompt.

The 'clonezilla live' cd from http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/ will 
work over the network if you have somewhere you can reach with ssh to 
store the image but it doesn't work with software raid devices.

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   Les Mikesell
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