1) if I have a 300g drive with a 10g install, I want to be able to use a cheap 10g to back up to rather than fork over the premium for a 300g
2) in the case of an array, the space may very well be bigger than available drives.
system imager btw, is a pretty good solution, it will backup filespace (vs drivespace), however, to do this with a bootable distro and span multiple dvd's is beyond my ability presently. Sadly, this is exactly what mkCDrec claims to do but since I can't get it installed and can't get support from them, it's moot.
I think in the long run, what we're going to end up doing is providing an install with systemimager on a smaller drive. This would allow for booting and instructions to run a bash script that will allow for reimaging.
thanks for all the advice and help
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STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote:
when restoring, will this recreate partitions or will it just restore an image to a partition that's already made?
Making the images would all happen in house, it when they need to be restored that the process needs to be as automated and simple as possible. I've never used partimaged, I will look into it, but based on your description I'm assuming the restore process does not need a second machine, or am I wrong?
You have to create a partition the same size as the original to restore into. That is unfortunate as I don't always remember the size needed if I forget to write it down. I asked on the parimage if there is a way of reading the required size from the file but have not gotten a response in a month. I have started poking around in the code to see what I could find. I am hoping it is held in the backup somewhere as the restore tells you when you don't have enough space.
I usually restore across the network just like I created the backup.
To restore with one machine, you have to get the backup file somewhere the
target machine can read it and the rescue CD is already occupying the
CDROM.
