[Cialug] Drive Imaging.

[Don Cady]

Probably has, as a good amount of g4l came from g4u.
The sad story-
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/08/18/1557202
http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/g4l.html

Don

>I replied to this on the ames list...
>
> I've used g4l, it worked very well. I imaged the old HD in my laptop with 
> both WinXP and Linux on it, and tranferred it to larger partitions on a 
> new HD.
>
> I tried g4u a couple years ago - at the time it only had german keyboard 
> mappings, so I couldn't type some symbols like the @ it needed to set up 
> the transfer. Maybe that's been addressed now.
>
> -dc
>
> Don Cady wrote:
>> I won't attest to the quality of any of these projects, but know they 
>> exist so I'm passing this list (hey, it's something..) along:
>>
>> http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
>> http://partitionlogic.org.uk/
>>
>> Don
>>
>>> Just wondering what people out there use for creating hard disk images? 
>>> I'm
>>> looking to take an image of a locally connected (USB) hard drive 
>>> including
>>> the MBR that's formatted as FAT16.  (it's running DOS 6.2)
>>>
>>> Many years ago I used Ghost, but it seems that the newer versions of 
>>> Ghost
>>> require the backup go across a network connection (there is no option to
>>> create an image of a locally connected HD, I even asked Symantec support
>>> about it).
>>>
>>> I've come across PartImage for Linux that supports all the major FS 
>>> formats,
>>> but it only takes an image of a partition, there's no way to simply 
>>> image
>>> the entire drive.  It also has an option in the program that says 
>>> "Restore
>>> an MBR from the imagefile", but there is no discussion about that option 
>>> in
>>> the documentation or much anywhere I could find online.  Everything I 
>>> could
>>> find about PartImage seemed to claim that you had to use dd and sfdisk 
>>> to
>>> get the MBR and partition info in addition to getting the image from
>>> PartImage.  Having to use three programs seems a bit overkill to me for
>>> simply wanting to get a drive image backed up.
>>>
>>> dd would do the job, but the HD is 32GB and I know dd will read every 
>>> bit
>>> (not just the used ones) so it would take a very long time and take up a 
>>> lot
>>> of space when the OS and program on the drive only uses a few hundred 
>>> meg.
>>>
>>> If anybody has experience with PartImage and can verify the "Restore an 
>>> MBR
>>> from the imagefile" option works, or if anybody knows of another free 
>>> drive
>>> image utility I would greatly appreciate hearing about it.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Gamble
>>
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