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eckza
Asked: 2011-04-13 12:17:30 +0800 CST

SME Server: How do I do nightly Ghost-like backups?

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I need to drop another hard drive into my company's SME Server-powered fileserver and figure out a way to do a nightly clone backup of the entire filesystem so that, if the hard drive fails, I can just drop in the clone and be on my way. I'm basically looking for something that can perform a dd, but with the filesystem being live.

Any suggestions?

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3 Answers

  1. RAID seems like the solution here, can't imagine calling something a "server" without a redundant disk system.

    tar, cpio, dump, rsync there are lots of ways to backup a server. There's a ton of other more sophisticated tools as well, bacula, amanda, proprietary solutions...

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  2. rsync may be your friend. It will sync differences in the file systems. Use the one file system option to limit the copy to the partition being copied.

    Piping dump to restore should also work, but rsync will do the least I/O.

    For Ghost-like backups I like Mondo which creates bootable recovery disk.

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