Re: ghost for linux?

[MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net>]

also sprach Alvin Oga (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 05:54:35PM -0800):
> > Is there ne open-source clone or equivalent of Norton Ghost ? I want to
> > ghost my debian box before fiddlin around with it..

this is the beauty about a non-obscure os: i did this many times
before and i never really wanted some ghost format somewhere that i
could only restore as full.

so instead i used a spare machine to feed a tar cf - / output into ssh
and compiled a tar file on the other side, excluding /cdrom, /floppy,
and /proc. in my case, it fit onto a cdr without /home, so i burnt
home separately.

now, if i wanted to repartition or take a new drive, partition it,
boot a boot disk, mount the harddrive appropriately, and untar into /.
install lilo, and that's it. beautious!

martin

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