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Trying to clone old linux machines using to img methods

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Codejoy

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.

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HBruijn
When you can't run whatever tools you need in your legacy OS to me a solution would be to boot a LiveImage / rescue image from CD or a thumb drive. Then you can run your image cloning tasks in a more recent runtime environment.
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Codejoy
This is a pretty good option. I was hoping there was something that could be done whilst the OS is running. So far I just tarballed using mnt bind the OS and also /etc/ and home folders of every machine. Mostly because no one wants to take these machines off line :/
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