I am making backup of the mentioned machine because I need to install a virtualization software on the same hardware. I think that I will use containers with cgroups this time, usually I use kvm, so it will be somewhat faster and I will be able to get some experience with LXC (untill now I used OpenVZ and am not a fan of it ;) ). Overall thanks for all help, I will use CloneZilla :) Have a nice day! R. 2014-07-16 22:54 GMT+02:00 Brian Miller <centos at fullnote.com>: > On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 21:50 +0200, Rafał Radecki wrote: > > Hi All ;) > > > > 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? > > 'dd'. I use it routinely when doing p2v migrations of older hardware > and when migrating heavily customized systems between hardware. > > Which brings up the point maybe you might want to investigate > virtualization options if you strongly suspect you'll have a requirement > to revert via a bare metal restoration procecure. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >