[ale] Online Backup

[greg.freemyer at gmail.com (Greg Freemyer)]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:20:11 -0500, Nick Travis <wormfishin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to create a full system backup, simular to a ghost
> image, of a linux server remotely without taking the server offline?
> Could you do something like "tar -cf my-system.tar * "?  Or would this
> fail due to files changing as the tar was being created.  Could rsync
> be used, I was thinking it would have to same problem of files
> changing though while it was syncing.  It's a pretty basic system, no
> databases or anything, just dhcp named and a firewall.
> 
> Nick
 
I have not used it, but partimage is supposed to be similar to ghost.

I'm not sure what filesystems it supports, nor if it works online.

Greg