[ale] [OT?] AVAYA G430 System Backup - RHEL 5.3

Sergio Chaves sergio.chaves at gmail.com
Tue Dec 3 15:46:43 EST 2013


All,

Hope everybody had a great ThanksGiving and is not as sick of turkey and
ham as I am with all its derivatives (aka: wife creative cooking)  :-)

I found out a few weeks back that our Phone Server has never been backed up
before; the company we have a contract with says that this is "extra" and
they would be happy to add that to our contract.

Long story short, I want to clone it or do a FULL backup. I have setup a
small ftp server here at work and was able to use the Avaya CM
(Communication Manager) interface to setup the backups.
The problem is that it backs up only the AVAYA config files and nothing of
the OS.

So I tap into the server and here is what I see:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga)
Kernel 2.6.18-128.AV14xen on an i686
Enter your terminal type (i.e., xterm, vt100, etc.) [vt100]=>
19220: old priority 0, new priority 0

chavess at GencoCM> df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda1            3.4G  1.3G  2.0G  39% /
/dev/xvda6             23M  1.3M   21M   6% /root2
/dev/xvda8           1012M   34M  927M   4% /home
/dev/xvdb             6.9G  1.5G  5.1G  23% /var
/dev/xvdd              14G  948M   13G   8% /msg/media1
chavess at GencoCM>

The 'thing" is that any USB device I connect to it does not get mounted. I
checked udev for rules and udev.conf and both are pretty much empty.
I am definitely not a Xen guru and do not have a clue on how to get a
proper clone image or a good backup off of it.
Would Clonezilla work for a Xen VM? I also have a copy of the "System
Rescue CD" here; is this a better option? RSync?
Are there any built in tools in the OS from AVAYA to do what I need/want?

Thanks

Sergio
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