[ale] Quiet spinning drives?

[Alex Carver]

On 2017-02-14 15:15, Jim Kinney wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-02-14 at 14:53 -0800, Alex Carver wrote:
>> I do have backups of all the data and some configuration files
>> (automatic rsync every night) but it's annoying to restore.  One of my
>> Pis runs a spinning disk, too, and that one will likely get an update,
>> too, since it's currently running an old 20 GB IDE laptop drive (I'll
>> switch to a pocket sized SATA drive over USB).  That one makes some
>> bearing noise since it's fairly old (having been in three laptops) so
>> two 2.5" drives is probably not such a bad option.  Only need an
>> enclosure for one and a cable for the other.
>>
>> At some point I'll get a big NAS box and dump all the backups on that.
>>
>> Now if only there was a way to image the whole machine while it was
>> still running. :)
> 
> Force it to suspend, boot with a live disk, rsync EVERYTHING except /proc 
> elsewhere. In /var/<somewhere> will be the hibernate file(s) with the runing 
> memory dump.

That's a suspended machine.  I meant still running the OS. :)