Re: ghost for linux?
Hmm, I would think the old 'tar' trick is safer than using dd (unless the disks are completly
identical):
Mount from disk and the to disk in under a booted linux, so like from/ and to/
then
(cd from; tar -cpf - .) | (cd ../to; tar -xpf -)
There are probably some arguments I'm forgetting to make sure that links and such go correctly and
permissions are maintained.
I suspect it wouldn't be that hard to make a rescue disk or a version of a one disk linux that would
automate this and or do it via a network, either by streaming tar over a socket somehow or using
NFS.
HTH
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>hi ya...
>
>i assume oyu have a second disk...
>
>( make sure its the same sized disks to keep things simple )
>dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
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>-- problem with ghost and dd is that it will also copy bad block info
> from the source to the 2nd disk...
> - disks now days are good enough that "bad blocks" is not an issue
>
>if you do NOT have a 2nd disk...but have lots of disk space left over...
>
> ( make sure its the same sized partitions to keep things simple )
> dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda11
> dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hda12
>
>c ya
>alvin
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>On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Ankit Jain wrote:
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>> Is there ne open-source clone or equivalent of Norton Ghost ? I want to
>> ghost my debian box before fiddlin around with it..
>>
>> -anks
>>
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