[Cialug] Drive Imaging

[Bailey, Jonathan C]

But the act of imaging the drive killed it. I never restored the
image... Weird.
 
 
Jon

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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
Behalf Of albus
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 9:47 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Drive Imaging


I've done NT 4 before with ghost 2001 and it worked. I tried to ghost a
fedora core 3 box with ext3 and it wouldn't work at all.
I bought the new version ghost 9.0 with ghost 2003, used ghost 9.0 I
believe and it worked.
 
So long story short I wonder if it's something to do with the version
you're using

 

	----- Original Message ----- 
	From: Bailey, Jonathan C <mailto:bailj0 at bp.com>  
	To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <mailto:cialug at cialug.org>  
	Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 9:35 AM
	Subject: RE: [Cialug] Drive Imaging

	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.
	
	
	-- 
	Mark Hesseltine
	mailto:markhesseltine at gmail.com 

	
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