Re: [Clonezilla-live] Create an image of the disk without rebooting the server

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

Steven Shiau wrote:
> Hi,
> Clonezilla is an image tool, which means it _images_ the used blocks of 
>   file system in a partition, not to mount the file system and save each 
> files. Therefore, the answer is no.
> Although maybe it's possible you can try to force to save the mounted 
> partition, the saved image might be corrupted.
> 
> In the future, we might add file-based backup and restore... Who knows...

I'd really appreciate having this.  It might require some tool to save 
the existing partition/filesystem/bootblock  for reconstruction - and a 
way to create/edit it if you don't have it or want to make changes.

It would be really nice if this could be integrated with backuppc 
(http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/) which does a great job of everything 
except bare metal restores.  It can, however, deliver a tar image with 
the recent full/incremental runs already merged using a command line 
tool which can be executed via ssh.  It would just take a few more 
scripted steps than clonezilla already does to deal with the grunge work 
of building the partitions, making filesystems, then mounting them 
somewhere and extracting the tar contents.  It's not impossible to do 
this manually, but there are a lot of steps to it.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    les...@gm...