Hello.
El 08/03/13 12:34, Paul Stimpson escribió:> I''m helping to create an appliance which consists of an Ubuntu
host, a
> number of Ubuntu guests and a Windows server guest. We''ve been
using
> Clonezilla to image the machine but it is performing badly in terms of
> image size and restore times.
Consider using partimage, at least for NTFS formatted devices. Since
your storage volumes are heterogeneous, I would suggest making a
separate image of each volume, this would allow the backup utility to
figure out the FS type and make the corresponding optimizations.
Your restore script would need to partition the physical device, create
the LVM structure, and then restore each image on it''s place.
> Can anyone please recommend a better backup program that is preferably
> free software or a better way of using Clonezilla so I can get the
> backup down to a more manageable size?
Can''t think of any, that could handle well the mix of different type of
FS, specially if they lay over LVM. A home-made wrapper that could
handle each image separately does not seems to be too complex, unless
you are looking for something "really abstract and flexible".
Don''t forget to consider the cost of the storage media, needed to
handle
simple dd+gz dumps, against the cost of time and dedication to create
the wrapper. I can''t say which will come out a better option, but
it''s
definitely something worth to evaluate.
Greetings.
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Alexandre Kouznetsov