Raid 5 buckup
 

Hello

I have suse 9.3 as mail server with raid5.

what tool should i use in order to backup all system.

Is there a way to have some kind of image of the Raid5 or each hdd separatly?

Should i use something like tar? Does this means that i will have to install suse from the begining and set the raid5, and after that to restor the data in tar file(s)?

is there something like fssnap (solaris) which can make full and incremental backups eventhough the fs is mounted?

If there is not soething like that, is there something like ufsdump?
If yes, iss there something that i will need to be very careful of?

someone told me that he had a hdd with windows and suse, and he managed to have that system imaged with norton gohst 2003, although gohst did not recognize the linux fs.

Hi,

I know mondo-backup and mondo-rescue. These programs backup partitions at file system level and create iso images. If I remember right, mondo is able to do incremental backups, too.

I use rsync at filesystem level backup tool. With use of the hardlink options, you can do snypshot like backups with low disk usage. Low usage, because in fact the program does incremental backups with only the access comfort of snapshots.

To do backups on partition level, you can use, err, I think it was called parted. I saw it long time ago. A tool like norton ghost. It supports all linux fashioned file systems and (experimental) ntfs. But I am not exactly sure about the programs name...
And I am not sure about accessing raid partitions, here...

Greetz,
Clemente