[CentOS] Full server restore-point image

Fri Aug 3 03:48:00 UTC 2007
Paul <subsolar at subsolar.com>

On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 16:26 -0400, 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 ?

Mondo Rescue http://www.mondorescue.org/ is something I've used in the
past.  It can make a boot CD or DVD that can be used to restore your
system from bare metal, it was pretty slick the time I used it.

Regards,
Paul Berger 

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> al.
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