[CentOS] Centos 6 full backup software?

Wed Jul 16 20:27:14 UTC 2014
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 3:10 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:
> On 7/16/2014 12:50 PM, Rafał Radecki wrote:
>> 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?
>
> For ext2/3/4, use dumpe2fs, for xfs, use xfsdump

If you use dump you'll have to create partitions/filesystems before
the restore and reinstall grub yourself. Clonezilla will do that for
you.   The 'rear' package from EPEL would also likely work although it
uses tar for the backup at least by default.

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   Les Mikesell
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