Hi everyone!
I manage multiple servers and I have to backup them.
I'd like to create an image of my hard drive to insure fast recovery and i'd like to backup this image on the network.
I know the old-school dd if= of=.
I was wondering if such a tool could export the content of my hard drive (read: with partitions, MBR,...) to an image on a remote server.
Maybe by mounting an NFS share and making my image on it?
And to restore, i could simply boot a linux livecd and dd if= of= from the share on my disk.
I'd run this (the backup) once a week in addition to the rsync data backup.
Is there another way to create an image on my disk? Maybe with incremental support (i seriously doubt about it)?
I don't know if exporting an image over the network on-the-go is a good idea...
Thanks for you advices!
François
I manage multiple servers and I have to backup them.
I'd like to create an image of my hard drive to insure fast recovery and i'd like to backup this image on the network.
I know the old-school dd if= of=.
I was wondering if such a tool could export the content of my hard drive (read: with partitions, MBR,...) to an image on a remote server.
Maybe by mounting an NFS share and making my image on it?
And to restore, i could simply boot a linux livecd and dd if= of= from the share on my disk.
I'd run this (the backup) once a week in addition to the rsync data backup.
Is there another way to create an image on my disk? Maybe with incremental support (i seriously doubt about it)?
I don't know if exporting an image over the network on-the-go is a good idea...
Thanks for you advices!
François