Sunday, April 4, 2004

Linux guru question

Here’s an open question to our Linux gurus out there. I’d like to back up a full Linux file system (containing a / partition, a /boot partition, and a /var partition — our firewall box). I don’t have a second volume on that drive. Is there a way I can back up everything, while the server is running, to a remote destination in such a way that it could later be restored, if necessary? I know that open database files might be problematic, and I’ll try to stop those services. If it’s possible, what’s the best way to do it? Also, any easy way of telling the distro a machine’s running? If you’ve got some ideas, please pop a note off to me at david@ZATZ.com. And now, I return you to our regularly scheduled news, and news editor James Booth. — DG

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