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Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months ago

CentOS 6.3 - Best backup / restore solution?

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CentOS 6.3 - Best backup / restore solution?

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Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months ago

Hello everyone!

My manager just brought to my attention that this organization has a CentOS 6.3 server - he didn’t specify what it’s hosting just yet but asked that I find a solution to do a full backup so that we may restore later onto bare metal with the option to migrate from CentOS to another Linux distro.

Has anyone had experience with backing up / restoring CentOS 6? And if you know what would be the best Linux distro to replace CentOS 6? Or even a step by step guide for both or either one?

Please and thanks in advance!

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Wow… that’s nice and clean - straight forward.

Thank you!
- Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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  Note: do that from a live CD/USB or with the source drive mounted readonly. If you dd a mounted and used filesystem, you’ll most likely end up with a corrupted and useless filesystem on the target.
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    Nice! Thanks for the tip!

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