Re: [ossig] Backup of running system ?

[Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com>]

On 26 Apr 2003, Uwe Dippel wrote:

> Maybe I'm on the stupid line today, but I was asking myself if and how
> the backup of a running system could be done without too much hassle?
> Would a tar starting at / be possible? Or a cp -a?

one should be using dump/restore for stuff like this. less things which
can go wrong, as well as being trusted and proven. on the other hand, i've
managed to ghost two identical disks using dd. less than 20 minutes for
36GB on separate scsi busses.

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