On Wednesday 01 February 2006 12:38 pm, anoop aryal wrote: > On Wednesday 01 February 2006 11:30 am, listrcv wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I´m looking for a kind of rescue CD I can boot from to create an image > > of the contents of partitions residing on a hardware RAID (3ware 7500-4) > > --- or to create an image of the whole RAID. The image(s) could be > > stored on a disk connected to the IDE port of the board (independent of > > the RAID controller) or transfered to a file server on the network. > > the RAID should be transparent to whatever backs it up. i.e. the hardware > (3ware card in this case) only presents a single drive (or whatever the > RAID level is) to the OS and consequently the backup software. it's up to > you to restore (when and if you need to restore) to whatever (hardware) > RAID you want. > > > The image(s) should serve as a backup copy from which the system can be > > easily restored. It is only needed as a one-time backup to be made > > before doing a dist-upgrade of the system. > > > > Any recommendations are greatly appreciated. > > 'mondo' might be what you're looking for.
Symantec Ghost would also work for such a task... it's commercial but if you have it, it works great. Joe