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Re: server backup

Why did you boot into target disk mode? Is this needed?

We did our Imagebackups (bevore changing anything) on a running XServe:

#!/bin/sh
DMGPATH=/your/path/to/the/target/dmg/SysBackup.dmg

if [ -d $(dirname $DMGPATH) ]; then

       /usr/bin/hdiutil create                 \
                       -srcfolder /            \
                       -anyowners              \
                       -format UDBZ            \
                       -ov $DMGPATH
       /bin/chmod 600 $DMGPATH

else
       /bin/echo "$(dirname $DMGPATH) not found! Volume mounted?"
fi

The target path is on a secondary volume only used for that. We've tested this a year ago and all went fine.


I guess you have no active (EG) mysql databases or other processes that are manipulating your data while the backup is created - if you did those data would most likely be corrupt…

- TvE
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