Thanks everyone for the tips. I read about dd ( https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DriveImaging) and the Wikipedia entry linked below. Now I know that I'm looking for something that can do live copying and (as per my understanding) dd is able to do this. However, would anyone know of a GUI-based solution? I'm not well-versed with the command line and would rather fiddle with a GUI.
I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 and SimpleBackupSuite seems attractive. However, the wiki (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem/SimpleBackupSuite) noted 48 open bugs so I was hoping there are other, more stable options. :) On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 10:07 AM, fooler mail <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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