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CentOS 6.3 - Best backup / restore solution? (self.linux)

submitted 6 months ago by StaySquared to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] Pacmanlives 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Any reason you can’t just do your normal backups? Should be easy enough to do an rsync if you don’t have a backup solution

[–] StaySquared 2 points 6 months ago

I just barely joined the organization, so I'm not entirely sure what's in our environment/infrastructure. First task given to me is to find a full image back up solution. My assumption is that we wants to move off of CentOS for obvious reasons and move onto a new Linux distro. I haven't spoken with my manager just yet to get a better idea as to what the end game is. Hopefully today I'll get the full scope. I can't imagine we'd want to continue using CentOS.