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Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices?

From Hans <hans.ullrich@mail.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices?
Date 2026-05-07 13:40 +0200
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Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2026, 12:56:05 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb Arno 
Lehmann:
Hi Arno, 

thanks for your reply. Although my question was answered meanwhile, I would 
like to tell, why I asked.

In Germany on school-servers is running IServ (I know about IServ and its 
quality, please do not blame me!), and as all schools do not use backup or 
hotspare servers, I thought of, how would I solve the problem, if one of these 
servers are burning down. 

So my solution would be, having drive images, restore them onto a new server 
and of we go.

However, taking drive omages from the running servers is not possible, as it 
is not allowed to shut them down, so the idea cam in my mind, to create images 
from a running system.

But as I do not know, if this is possible at all (due to possible changes 
while the drives are mounted), and could not find a way searching the web, I 
allowed me, to ask here some other experts. Maybe they might know, if this 
issue can be solved or not. 

But it appears, it is not, and so my question was fullly answered.

Hope, I made not too much noise!

Best 

Hans 

   

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Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? Hans <hans.ullrich@mail.de> - 2026-05-07 10:50 +0200
  Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl> - 2026-05-07 11:00 +0200
    Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? Hans <hans.ullrich@mail.de> - 2026-05-07 11:40 +0200
  Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2026-05-07 12:40 +0200
    Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2026-05-10 12:50 +0200
  Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2026-05-07 12:40 +0200
    Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2026-05-07 12:50 +0200
      Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2026-05-07 15:10 +0200
        Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2026-05-07 15:30 +0200
          Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2026-05-07 16:10 +0200
        Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2026-05-07 16:00 +0200
          Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2026-05-07 16:10 +0200
            Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2026-05-07 18:00 +0200
              Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2026-05-07 19:00 +0200
                Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2026-05-07 20:00 +0200
                Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2026-05-07 20:20 +0200
                Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2026-05-10 14:50 +0200
                Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de> - 2026-05-11 14:30 +0200
                Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2026-05-11 15:00 +0200
                Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2026-05-11 17:50 +0200
                Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de> - 2026-05-11 18:30 +0200
                Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2026-05-11 18:40 +0200
                Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2026-05-11 22:00 +0200
                Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2026-05-11 18:30 +0200
                Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2026-05-11 19:50 +0200
                Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de> - 2026-05-11 22:00 +0200
                Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2026-05-12 08:00 +0200
                Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2026-05-12 13:40 +0200
                Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2026-05-07 21:10 +0200
  Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de> - 2026-05-07 13:10 +0200
    Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? Hans <hans.ullrich@mail.de> - 2026-05-07 13:40 +0200
    Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? Hans <hans.ullrich@mail.de> - 2026-05-07 13:40 +0200
      Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2026-05-07 15:50 +0200
        Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2026-05-07 16:20 +0200
        Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." <roy@rtellason.com> - 2026-05-07 20:30 +0200
      Re: Debian tool for creating drive images from mounted devices? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2026-05-07 18:30 +0200

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