Image a System

[J. Epperson]

On Tue, April 7, 2009 10:29, Brian McGrew wrote:
> Good morning all...
>
> I have an old PE1800 running Fedora Core 5 that I¹m using for development
> and constantly breaking!
>
> I want to make an image of the system and store it somewhere on the NFS
> network so I don¹t have to keep reinstalling...  What would be the best
> way
> to do this???  I¹m using LVM, so I¹m not sure...  I was thinking something
> like Œdd if=/dev/sda of=/some/network/location¹???
>
> Any suggestions???
>

I'd install vsftpd on another box and use
http://freshmeat.net/projects/g4l/

I know for sure that g4l v.17 through .20 will support 1800-gen Poweredges.

Or you can boot a live CD environment, mount the target NFS share and
do your dd.  Recommend piping through lzop to cut down on network traffic.
 Zero out the freespace first to maximize compression.  I can image or
restore a ~70Gb RAID5 with a basic Fedora install on it in less than 45min
on a 100Mbit network.  If you have GigE and tons of space, you might find
that not compressing is faster.