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From: Simon Wilson on 29 Jun 2010 09:00 I have a little server (macmini, powerpc, ubuntu server based) at home that I'm now quite attached to. It does email, dhcp, webserver all that kind of stuff. It's taken me quite a long time to get it just right, but I don't have a decent backup of it. Taking the HD out is quite a pain due to the case design. What's the best way to take an image backup of the whole disk such that it would just boot from the copy if I needed it to? Free is good. tia -- /Simon
From: Catman on 29 Jun 2010 09:01 Simon Wilson wrote: > I have a little server (macmini, powerpc, ubuntu server based) at home > that I'm now quite attached to. It does email, dhcp, webserver all that > kind of stuff. It's taken me quite a long time to get it just right, but > I don't have a decent backup of it. > > Taking the HD out is quite a pain due to the case design. > > What's the best way to take an image backup of the whole disk such that > it would just boot from the copy if I needed it to? > > Free is good. > > tia > Carbon cloner http://mac-free.com/download/Carbon-Copy-Cloner.html or use time machine.... -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 GTV TS GT 3.2 V6 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
From: Jim on 29 Jun 2010 09:08 On 29/06/2010 14:00, Simon Wilson wrote: > I have a little server (macmini, powerpc, ubuntu server based) at home > that I'm now quite attached to. It does email, dhcp, webserver all that > kind of stuff. It's taken me quite a long time to get it just right, but > I don't have a decent backup of it. > > Taking the HD out is quite a pain due to the case design. > > What's the best way to take an image backup of the whole disk such that > it would just boot from the copy if I needed it to? USB HDD caddy, then "rsync -Rcax / [mountpoint]" for the copying. The 'c' makes it checksum everything, you can omit it most of the time and it'll be faster. You could muck around with dd to get a disk image, but frankly you're just copying stuff you don't need to. You will need to do some fiddling with boot loaders to get it to boot off the second disk if you ever need to.
From: Simon Wilson on 29 Jun 2010 09:14 On 29/06/2010 14:01, Catman wrote: > Simon Wilson wrote: >> I have a little server (macmini, powerpc, ubuntu server based) at home >> that I'm now quite attached to. It does email, dhcp, webserver all >> that kind of stuff. It's taken me quite a long time to get it just >> right, but I don't have a decent backup of it. >> >> Taking the HD out is quite a pain due to the case design. >> >> What's the best way to take an image backup of the whole disk such >> that it would just boot from the copy if I needed it to? >> >> Free is good. >> >> tia >> > > Carbon cloner > http://mac-free.com/download/Carbon-Copy-Cloner.html > or use time machine.... > "ubuntu server" -- /Simon
From: Simon Wilson on 29 Jun 2010 09:16
On 29/06/2010 14:08, Jim wrote: > On 29/06/2010 14:00, Simon Wilson wrote: >> I have a little server (macmini, powerpc, ubuntu server based) at home >> that I'm now quite attached to. It does email, dhcp, webserver all that >> kind of stuff. It's taken me quite a long time to get it just right, but >> I don't have a decent backup of it. >> >> Taking the HD out is quite a pain due to the case design. >> >> What's the best way to take an image backup of the whole disk such that >> it would just boot from the copy if I needed it to? > > USB HDD caddy, then "rsync -Rcax / [mountpoint]" for the copying. The > 'c' makes it checksum everything, you can omit it most of the time and > it'll be faster. So as I suspected, I'll need to get into the case for this. > > You could muck around with dd to get a disk image, but frankly you're > just copying stuff you don't need to. dd worries me in that it doesn't error check very well IIRC? > > You will need to do some fiddling with boot loaders to get it to boot > off the second disk if you ever need to. hmmm fiddling = bad. It will of course always happen at the worst possible time. -- /Simon |