Backup and restore of RHEL 4.5
 

Hi!I have a server on which RHEL 4.5 is installed.Can you please let me know
if there is a particular way where I can take full backup of the OS and
restore it back on some other server, or the same server.


Thanks!
Rohit Khaladkar
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Backup and restore of RHEL 4.5
 

Hi Rohit,

I think partimage can help you out. Have a look to this howto:

http://orgs.man.ac.uk/documentation/partimage/index-1.html

Otherwise, some more instructions:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/admin-primer/s1-disaster-rhlspec.html

Hope this helps!

kind regards,

Kim DS.



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Hi Rohit,

There is number of options. I really depends on your requirements, but I suggest looking at an amanda, dump and perhaps LVM2 snapshots.

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Thanks a lot! This helps!
The requirement that I have is I would be upgrading the server from Red Hat
4.5 to Redhat 5.2.
But if something goes wrong , I need to have a backup plan to restore
everything back.

Please let me know if anyone thinks, there would a better way out after
looking at the requirements.


Thanks a lot!

Rohit Khaladkar

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:55 PM, <kim.desmaele@bayercropscience.com> wrote:

> Hi Rohit,
>
> I think partimage can help you out. Have a look to this howto:
>
> http://orgs.man.ac.uk/documentation/partimage/index-1.html
>
> Otherwise, some more instructions:
>
>
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/admin-primer/s1-disaster-rhlspec.html
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> kind regards,
>
> Kim DS.
>
>
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> Hi!I have a server on which RHEL 4.5 is installed.Can you please let me know
> if there is a particular way where I can take full backup of the OS and
> restore it back on some other server, or the same server.


Hi Rohit,

try Mondo Rescue http://www.mondorescue.org/
With Mondo it´s possible to make DVD-Images of your entire system and
copy it with the Mondo-Installer (installed on the created DVD-Image) on
your new hardware.

T-One

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Rohit khaladkar schrieb:
> Thanks a lot! This helps!
> The requirement that I have is I would be upgrading the server from Red Hat
> 4.5 to Redhat 5.2.
> But if something goes wrong , I need to have a backup plan to restore
> everything back.
>
> Please let me know if anyone thinks, there would a better way out after
> looking at the requirements.
>

As far as i know partimage can´t copy the bootloader in the mbr, after a
restore you have to reinstall the bootloader with the recovery system or
make a backup of the mbr before making the image with partimage.

In order to backup only the first few bytes containing the MBR and the
partition table you can use dd:

dd if=/dev/hdx of=/path/to/image count=1 bs=512

to restore the mbr just start a linux live-system and enter the
following command:

dd if=/path/to/image of=/dev/hdx

You can backup the MBR to a floppy-disk or a USB-stick, whatever you prefer.

T-One
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I've heard that http://www.mondorescue.org/about.shtml is worth having a
look at, but haven't tried it myself yet.

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