Backup my Linux ES3 server

ir.m4nxkurx5 · 03-16-2006, 10:19 PM

Hi, everbody. Hopefully everybody is fine. I'm a new member here and i'm just new to Linux. So, please feel free to guide me. Ok, my company use two Linux server that running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3. I was been given a task to backup the server not just a data but also completely the whole system including the OS itself. So, i didn't how to do it. I hope anybody can guide me how to do it. Please feel free to help me as i am a newbies to play with the Mr Torvald penguin.

Aperculum · 03-17-2006, 03:05 PM

since you're talking about linux the backup should be as easy as make tar out of root directory and store it to backup thingie.

Code:

tar -cjf root_backup.tar.bz2 /

this will make bzip2 compressed tar archive out of your system called root_backup.tar.bz2

another way is to use something like norton ghost but I don't think that's necessary with linux

zerovice · 03-30-2006, 09:38 AM

What do you plan on using to backup the data to? network, tape drive? Check out BackupEdge at www.microlite.com it's a good product with a lot of functionality.

Hep · 03-31-2006, 03:10 PM

Hi, I use Veritas, well sorry Symantec, BackUp Exec it has its own agents to backup linux systems. If you want to BackUp your system locally you can check the man page for dump command. Hope it helps.