Mounting a SCSI drive to image it.
I am currently in the process of setting up a server with a SCSI hard disk. This is the only drive in the machine. I want to be able to image some of the partitions on this drive to allow for an easy system restore.
I have two drive imaging packages. Partition Magic's Drive Image 5 which will read EXT2 (not EXT3 or Reiser) but not write to it meaning that I will have to create a FAT/NTFS partition to write to solely for the created image files. I also have Paragon's Drive Backup 5.0 which claims to read and write to all linux filesystems. It boots of a CD into it's own linux OS. This seems to work fine on my dual boot machine with an IDE hard disk meaning that I can see all the drives. When I try it on the server machine with a SCSI hard disk it says that there is no Hard Drive installed!? So, getting to my questions... I am struggling to mount the drive from the command line. What is the SCSI device called? Is it sda1, because I can't see that in /dev/? I have
If I locate the device where do I mount it? Thank you. PS If anyone has any recommendations for alternative imaging software I would love to hear them. |
If it's the only hard disk on the machine, how can you not know what it's called? Where is your root partition mounted? What does it say in /etc/fstab ?
As for software to image a partition, what's wrong with good old tar? tar cjf folder.tar.bz2 folder That command will create a tar.bz2 archive of the folder you name, so if you have a partition mounted at /mnt/example cd /mnt tar cjf example.tar.bz2 example then to expand that somewhere else, mount a different partition on /mnt/example then cd /mnt tar xjf example.tar.bz2 |
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