[ale] Online Backup

[Nathan J. Underwood]

I've never tried it to get an online image, but I do use it (in 
production) to 'ghost' workstations, and it works great.  I'm using the 
bzip2 option for winxp pro, win2k pro machines with much success.
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Nathan J. Underwood
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Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:20:11 -0500, Nick Travis <wormfishin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Is there a way to create a full system backup, simular to a ghost
>>image, of a linux server remotely without taking the server offline?
>>Could you do something like "tar -cf my-system.tar * "?  Or would this
>>fail due to files changing as the tar was being created.  Could rsync
>>be used, I was thinking it would have to same problem of files
>>changing though while it was syncing.  It's a pretty basic system, no
>>databases or anything, just dhcp named and a firewall.
>>
>>Nick
> 
>  
> I have not used it, but partimage is supposed to be similar to ghost.
> 
> I'm not sure what filesystems it supports, nor if it works online.
> 
> Greg
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