Re: Making a re-install image
<quote who="Alex Crouzen">
> Hi all,
>
> Just wondering if there is such a thing for linux as Norton Ghost. I want
> to be able to write a complete partition to one/more CD-Rs, and have
> something like a floppy or a bootable CD that will re-install it byte by
> byte back to my machine.
>
> Anyone have a hint/clue/pointer?
if the system is using EXT2 partitions, ghost should work.. otherwise
you could try dd, which can do this but dd has very little as far
as error checking & correction. it would be hard to determine if
an error was in the image.
you could also enable filesystem dumps(in fstab) and unmount the filesystem
and dump it to a file..again not much error checking and correcting
i think.
both of these methods i have not tried, and would not trust
them on my systems. i prefer to backup individual files.
in any case for such a system to work, you'd really have to
be in single user mode with almost nothing running so you can
be sure most of the files are not in use. which for my systems
is not really possible, so i do a live backup of the files
themselves rather then the raw bits they sit on.
nate
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