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I have a production linux system, and i plan to upgrade the distrupution, I'm affraid that i'll end up with a broken production system, so i want to clone my production linux box into a local server, perform the upgrade and make sure that result of upgrade won't break my system. What tools i can use to clone a live system ?
Any one you can choose accord your need and facility :
A.) Third Part cloning tools/ utility :
1.) Linuxghost - Mostly recommended and good for recovery.
2.) Clonezilla - Similar functionality to Symantec Ghost.
3.) PartImage - Compressed image file backup for Partition.
4.) PING (Part image Is Not Ghost) - similar functionality to Symantec Ghost.
5.) Mondo Resuce - Also good tools provides backup solution.
Traditional / Default & other available tools at OS level :
# dd - Disk compressed Or image backup.
# tar - Compressed backup for selected binaries (file/s & folder/s).
# Dump / restore - Provides the incremental backup solution.
# rsnapshot - Local & remote filesystem snapshot.
#rsync - Can be used to copy remote file/s.
Other Client / Server Solutions are :
1.) Amanda
2.) Bacula
3.) Symantec Backup Exec
Mondo Rescue is an open source, free disaster recovery and backup utility that allows you to easily create complete system (Linux or Windows) Clone/Backup ISO Images to CD, DVD,Tape, USB devices, Hard Disk, and NFS. And can be used to quickly restore or redeploy working image into other systems, in the event of data loss, you will be able to restore as much as entire system data from backup media.
Mondo program is available freely for download and released under GPL (GNU Public License) and has been tested on a large number of Linux distributions.
Although I don't recommend cloning.
but you can use
Always a fresh install is better. Anyhow we Have dd ,clonezilla a third party tool.We have to save the .img file into another partition safely.
CloneZilla is good to clone a Linux system. Or use rSync to backup your data and then install afresh.
dd linux tool
linuxghost is best for clone the linux machine