I found this handy website to show how to clone drives to a img file:
https://www.maketecheasier.com/clone-entire-hard-drive-linux/
What neatish looking option was partimage, so I wanted to get that rolling on our very old, very not updated systems (updating would break the very old scientific hardware they have on them).
sudo yum install partimage
Loaded plugins: kernel-module
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/54/i386/SL/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/54/i386/SL/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/54/i386/SL/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/54/i386/SL/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 Failed to change directory.
Trying other mirror.
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/54/i386/updates/security/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/54/i386/updates/security/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/54/i386/updates/security/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/54/i386/updates/security/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: [Errno ftp error] 550 Failed to change directory.
Trying other mirror.
Setting up Install Process
No package partimage available.
Nothing to do
The version of linux is:
cat /etc/*-release
Scientific Linux SL release 5.4 (Boron)
uname -r
2.6.18-164.15.1.el5PAE
Am I just out of luck for doing it this way? Which way is a good way for backing up these system. We use Veeam but for these old machine they are sooo not supported and I cannot get their agents on it.
Best I had was to use what was suggested here
https://evpo.net/wiki/backup-and-restore-your-linux-system-disk.html
and basically gzip the os. I don't know if this works and I really don't ever want to find out.
The partimage option looks nice to make a clone of the drive without having physically add a drive to clone. I just again cannot seem to get it even installed.
