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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080104/8be43d8d/attachment-0005.sig>