this will guide you for your needs... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_disk_cloning_software
fooler. On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Andres Montiel, CUA <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a headless Ubuntu server acting primarily as a file server. It has 2 > hard drives - a primary 500GB drive and a recently added 1TB drive. The 1TB > drive is partitioned to 2, each having 500GB. > > The 500GB - the bootable disk - houses around 8 years of photos and movies. > I want to back up the primary 500GB drive to one of the partitions on the > 1TB disk. However, I want the backup to be bootable (probably as an image?) > so that I can easily restore the main 500GB should anything happen to it. > > I was thinking of Clonezilla perhaps, and saving the image to one of the > partitions on the 1TB. However, this would mean that I would have to restart > the machine, boot via a USB disk, etc. Since this machine is on 24/7, I was > hoping that there is a way to back up the main drive without any downtime (a > cron job perhaps?). I tried Googling for a solution, but I may have used > wrong search terms because I wasn't able to find anything useful. > > Any tips on how to solve this would be appreciated. :) > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
