[CentOS] Centos 6 full backup software?

[Rafał Radecki]

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.
>
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