[Cialug] Drive Imaging

[albus]

OM error?

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bailey, Jonathan C 
  To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 9:47 AM
  Subject: RE: [Cialug] Drive Imaging


  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 
    To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group 
    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.


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    Mark Hesseltine
    mailto:markhesseltine at gmail.com 


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