[Gllug] Make ghost on a dedicated server

[- Tethys]

On Dec 6, 2007 10:04 AM, Raphaël Benard <raphy_02_4 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, a ghost is an image of the disk. But, rsync backup only the files. An image is more than just the files of the disk. In an image, you backup the MBR, the size of the partitions, the file system of the partitions...

As a general rule, if you're wanting to be able to do a bare metal
restore, you're better off having a small script that saves the state
of the disk (copy of MBR, partition sizes, filesystem details, etc.),
and then use rsync for the data itself. You'll typically save a fair
bit of data transfer that way.

> Rsync is use for the transfer of the image, not for create the image. And it's for create the image I have a problem.

If you really want to create a whole disk image, then dd(1) is your friend.

Tet

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