[CentOS] Backup

[Johnny Hughes]

Ruslan Sivak wrote:
> We have a RHEL2 server that has had one of the drives in the raid array
> fail.  I would like to do a full backup of the system before we replace
> the raided drive, in case the second drive decides to die during the
> procedure.
> What is the recommended way to back up a linux system?  I was thinking
> of doing a snapshot, but the system is ext3 with no LVM.  It has been
> suggested to hook up a usb drive and do an rsync of /.  Are there any
> better solutions?
> The reason I wanted a snapshot is that I wanted to get an image of the
> disk, so that I wouldn't have to reinstall and reconfigure all the apps.
> Russ

I know this SOMEHOW ties to CentOS ... though I am not quite seeing it
in that post.

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