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Well I'm supposed to back up the OS, not seperate files. (other people are in charge of data back-up )

mark54g: I used dd to backup /dev/sda and instead of writing to the home directory I wrote...

Thank you for your reply.

But is it possible to copy entire directories with dd?
Because when I try to use it (dd if=/boot of=/filename), I get the message "/boot is a directory" (which is off...

Hello,

I'm trying to take a live backup of a red hat 5.5 64 bit server (with LVM).
Afterwards I want to restore this backup on an empty server, so basicly I want to dublicate the server.
But...