Linux Debian 5 - Live system backup

Hi All,

Can anyone make good suggestions for either paid of open source software to allow a backup of a physical Debian 5 server to a virtualised environment.
VMWare P2V converter was tried however upon receation of new machine, several components would not run.

Thanks

You have a couple of options.

redobackup click this link-> Redo Backup Bare Metal Restore Solution GUI Backup Open Source GPL Recovery

clonezilla

dd (very easy to use:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
or dd if=/dev/sda of=/home/user/sda-image.dd

remember! with dd the partition sizes on restore must be same or bigger
to restore dd if=/home/user/sda-image.dd of=/dev/sda
where if is "input file" and of is "output file" ... dd can backup/restore to/from
partitions or files, it is a sector-by-sector copy

rsync


good luck

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