Hi All,

Pardon me if this thread wasn't suppose to be here or duplicated but seem i really cannot find the solution else where..

I need to backup my active production servers(yeah it's too late now) with image cloning application that were running RHEL3-5. The problem is I need to run it remotely from my office.

Most of the softwares I found either need to use bootable cd or need to unmount my partitions which is I wasn't allowed to since it's a production servers.

I also tried dd but it consume too much time, sector by sector cloning and empty disk space also included so the file created also big in size.

Hope the experts here can advice me with some of preferable applications or softwares that really work.

Thanks you in advance.

There are plenty of backup applications available, Amanda is a popular open source one .. http://www.amanda.org/

cheers

thanks kbp,

unfortunately i'm looking for image cloning software that can clone my servers like norton ghost..i'm afraid amanda won't do so..

Gonna be tricky to clone them while they're live, the only thing I could think of is PlateSpin Migrate. I used it recently during a p2v project and the results were ok... then again, I think it shut down the box to perform the migration.

Clonezilla includes partimage which will only copy the data not the empty space, http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page.. maybe that would be your best bet

hth

If you are talking about production servers (in the plural), then you should have both image clones for disaster recovery and backup software to recover data, configuration files, etc. You may want both Clonezilla and Amanda. You could clone at specific benchmarks (after doing an update) and run backups every night using mixed full and incremental backups. Then if the server dies, you can get it back from a clone and update details from the backups. If the boss wants file x from last Tuesday, you can get that too.