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!

  • Bell@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I have a CentOS 6.8 server that I backup with:

    dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb conv=sync,noerror bs=4M

    Of course change the sda/sdb to whatever your source(backup drives are