Yes, rear sounds resonable ;) I will try it also, thanks. BR, Rafal. 2014-07-17 19:30 GMT+02:00 Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Rafał Radecki <radecki.rafal at gmail.com> > wrote: > > I need a block level backup because I need an easy to restore backup of > the > > whole server, including mbr, partition layout and of course data. The > > server will be reinstalled so filesystem level backup is an option but > not > > as straightforward and easy to restore as for example Clonezilla. > > > > The 'rear' (Relax-and-Recover) package from EPEL is about as easy to > use but with a different approach. It will generate a bootable iso > containing a script to reconstruct the partitions, filesystems, etc. > and restore to them. Some tradeoffs are that Clonezilla will do > single disks and bring along windows or other partitions not part of > the active system, but can't handle multiple drives or RAID and it > needs at least an equal-sized disk for the restore. ReaR can make > its backup without shutting the running system down, understands > raid/lvm, etc., but only the linux filesystems - and with some work > you can modify the disk layout/sizes before the restore. ReaR is a > reasonable tool to do conversions to VM's, etc., where you are likely > to want to rearrange the layout or remove software raid, although you > have to manually edit the layout description file. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >