backup system for RHEL

[Nishanth Chandran]

Hello,
Did anybody tried Mondo Rescue?? http://www.mondorescue.org/

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Cheers,

Nishanth

2009/7/24 ESGLinux <esggrupos at gmail.com>

> Well
> Finally these are the results of the test:
>
> time dd if=/home/images/nodo1.img of=/home/images/backup/nodo1backup.img
> bs=1M
> 10240+1 records in
> 10240+1 records out
> 10737418242 bytes (11 GB) copied, 255,37 seconds, 42,0 MB/s
>
> real    4m20.980s
> user    0m0.028s
> sys     0m19.461s
> # ll nodo1.img
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10737418242 jul 24 14:28 nodo1.img
> # ll backup/nodo1backup.img
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10737418242 jul 24 14:27 backup/nodo1backup.img
>
>
> In 4 minutes I have made a copy of the image and then I used it and it
> works
> fine.
>
> The problem I see with this, is the size of the image. When you make a real
> snapshot the size is very small, but with this method the size is the same
> as the original image. Backing up this file to an external device will take
> a long time.
>
> For me, it´s valid, because I have a small number of images, but for a big
> number of images It will be impossible to make this backup.
>
> Another aproach to this problem?
>
> ESG
>
>
> 2009/7/24 Geofrey Rainey <Geofrey.Rainey at tvnz.co.nz>
>
> > Na you won't break anything apart from maybe increasing the load/ i/o
> wait
> > On your server..otherwise you'll get a nice backup :) (make sure you've
> got
> > The exact same space as the partition you're backing up too)
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:
> > redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of ESGLinux
> > Sent: Friday, 24 July 2009 10:39 p.m.
> > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> > Subject: Re: backup system for RHEL
> >
> > Thanks Geogfry,
> > I´m going to try it to see what happens,
> >
> > I expect I´ll dont break nothing ;-)
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > ESG
> >
> >
> >
> > 2009/7/24 Geofrey Rainey <Geofrey.Rainey at tvnz.co.nz>
> >
> > > Yes exactly, that's the way.
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of ESGLinux
> > > Sent: Friday, 24 July 2009 10:33 p.m.
> > > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> > > Subject: Re: backup system for RHEL
> > >
> > > 2009/7/24 Geofrey Rainey <Geofrey.Rainey at tvnz.co.nz>
> > >
> > > > For the Xen images made of partitions, you'd do:
> > > >
> > > > # dd if=/dev/sda? of=/backup/xen-backup-image.img bs=1M
> > > >
> > > > (where /dev/sda? is the partition which your
> > > > /etc/xen/<xen-config>:disk='phy:.....' refers to.
> > > >
> > > > Make sense?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Not really,
> > >
> > > Because the images are not in a partition, They are files.
> > > For example I have this:
> > > disk = [ "tap:aio:/home/images/NODE1.img,xvda,w" ]
> > >
> > > perhaps doing:
> > >  dd if=/home/images/NODE1.img of=/backup/xen-backup-image.img bs=1M
> > >
> > > will work?
> > >
> > > ESG
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