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Depending on how you partitioned your hard drive and what applications are running where will depend if you can keep your system up and running while using partimage.

Good Uses:
When installing the same os (LINUX or MS :( ) on multiple similar machines, I install it once, use partimage to create an image and then restore that image to the other machines.  Note must copy the boot sector via dd if=/dev/??? of=outfile count=512


Greg Freemyer wrote:
> 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
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