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Making a full backup in rescue mode?

Rubenve

New Pleskian
Hi all,

I'm in a bit of a tough situation at the moment. This morning I noticed my dedicated CentOS 6 server being very slow. Going through the logs I noticed some errors indicating a failing harddisk. Further inspection turns out that both harddisks need to be replaced.
The harddisks are in RAID 1. I have /dev/sda en /dev/sdb and the second hard disk was automatically kicked out of the RAID array (degraded).
Currently I can only boot in rescue mode, but I am still able to mount my two partitions /dev/md1 (root filesystem) and /dev/md2 the data partition.

Is there a way I can still make a full backup so that I can restore that after replacing both disks and reinstalling Plesk?

Edit: I still have access to the /lib/psa/dumps dir too. I had Plesk set to make a daily backup of everything and I'm assuming this is where those backups are stored correct? The last backup is three days old, but if I can use that then I'll be more than happy.

I have these files in there from august 9:

-rw------- 1 root root 205747 Aug 9 03:40 mysql.daily.dump.0.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root root 160942 Aug 9 00:26 backup_info_1308082355.xml
-rw-r----- 1 root root 1806 Aug 9 00:26 backup_0-1vlRDb.5_1308082355.tgz
-rw-r----- 1 root root 1806 Aug 9 00:26 backup_0-u9V4fT.4_1308082355.tgz
-rw-r----- 1 root root 1805 Aug 9 00:26 backup_0-1xmf1z.3_1308082355.tgz
-rw-r----- 1 root root 1806 Aug 9 00:26 backup_0-10fWMw.2_1308082355.tgz
-rw-r----- 1 root root 1806 Aug 9 00:26 backup_0-gkJv6d.1_1308082355.tgz
-rw-r----- 1 root root 217 Aug 9 00:26 backup_file_sharing_1308082355.tgz
-rw-r----- 1 root root 1471 Aug 9 00:26 backup_sb_server_1308082355.tgz
-rw-r----- 1 root root 92844 Aug 9 00:26 backup_skel_1308082355.tgz

I also have the domains subdir with backups from the individual sites.

Say I make a tarball of this whole dumps dir and scp it to my local system here. Would I be able to do a full restore with that?

Ruben.
 
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