[Cialug] Drive Imaging

[Bailey, Jonathan C]

Ok.. I've learned my lesson. dd is a good thing and ghost is bad.
Question though... I imaged 2 NT 3.51 machines. Just read the image off
the drive with ghost and didnt do anything else. Now I'm getting the
famous inaccessable boot device error on both. After imaging the drive
no less! Does anyone know what ghost did to the drive that makes NT
choke? I've never seen this before with ghost. Also, I imaged an NT4
system and had no problems at all. Weird....
 
 
Jon

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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
Behalf Of Mark Hesseltine
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 1:14 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Drive Imaging


On 9/19/05, Bailey, Jonathan C <bailj0 at bp.com> wrote: 

	I'm looking for decent drive imaging software that runs under
Linux. Here's my wishlist: 

	* Images Win9x/NT, OS/2, and anything else that you throw at it 
	* Works off a bootable CD 
	* Saves image files to a SAMBA share or via FTP 
	* Can restore images to a different drive size (like Ghost) 

	I've used ghost before, but apparently it has some issues with
OS/2. dd worked fine for the OS/2 system I had to image, but I'm
thinking there has to be a way for dd to restore to a drive of a
different size without borking the OS.



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While not an all-in-one solution, you could use the combo of Partimage
(http://www.partimage.org) along with Parted
(http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html) to resize the partition
once it's restored.

I believe both of these tools are available on the latest Knoppix CD.


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Mark Hesseltine
mailto:markhesseltine at gmail.com 
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