Re: taking image of disk and clonning it
If you want OSS I'm not the one to ask. We've deployed a nice setup
with Norton Ghost though. Works well even for Linux/BSD servers.
Get's used on a daily basis.
HTH,
Doug Miller
On 3/3/06, Bart van den Heuvel <bart@zokahn.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had mixed results with Mondo. http://www.mondorescue.org
>
> It will create a bootable iso, dvd/cdrom or tape archive of your system.
> You can select parts of your system also. The speed is ok, but i don't
> have much to compare...
>
> If you have a plain install (stock kernel, no lvm) you might have success
> on the first go. I had a problem with LVM2, had to remove MAPPER from the
> entries in fstab. Also some problems with large filesystems, part from
> that al went OK!
>
> Gr,
>
> Bart
>
>
> > hi,
> > i`m using dd to take an image of whole disk, but as usual dd saves every
> > bit even it is 0, so saving and writing that image to several hd devices
> > (aka clonning) takes long time, i tried partitionimage packet provided
> > by sarge but it does no support to swap and image of whole disk, i can
> > only take the image of ext2,ext3,reiserfs and ntfs partitions but the
> > speed is fine, can you suggest any program like the mix of dd and
> > partitionimage.
> > thanks.
> >
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