[ILUG] hard disk imaging

[ccostelloe at flogas.ie]

There are "issues" with Norton Ghost and Linux - it only supports ext2 and you have to manually partition the drive in exactly the same way as the original drive prior to a restore.  I would imagine that to be very messy if you did not keep a record of it, messier still if you were trying to get your new 100GB drive to look like the original 100MB drive :-)

Ciaran



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Subject: RE: [ILUG] hard disk imaging
Author:  Graham.Smith at it-tallaght.ie at INTERNET
Date:    21/09/2001 15:19


I use Norton Ghost a lot, its quick and easy to use, has tons of funky features, using multicast for imaging many workstations is very
fast, its easy & quick to set up fairly complex options.

I'm all in favour of free stuff but Ghost is something i'd pay for if you're gonna be doing large volume of imaging accross a
network. Ghost Server and Ghost Console have a lot going for them.

It sounds like you're talking about just 1 machine, so like everybody else is suggesting dd - its is as good a tool as any and i'd go along with that.

G.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Oliver Ryan [mailto:oryan at epona.physics.nuigalway.ie] Sent: 21 September 2001 12:36
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: [ILUG] hard disk imaging


Hi all,

I'd like to make a copy (image) of a hard disk (10GB) running RH Linux
and transfer it to a new hard drive. What's the best way of doing this? I've heard of Norton Ghost and Drive Image to create an image of the
original disk, but these have to be bought.

Thanks,

Oliver.

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