Damir Perisa wrote: > Hi all, > > has anybody tried to ghost a partition under arch? > > i was using norton ghost years ago to burn CD's to backup important > parititions. Now i would like to make a backup of the vista and > lenovo rescue and recovery patitions so that i can remove them > completely from the harddrive. > > the idea is to copy the paritions (5gb and 40gb) to DVD's (DVD burner > is connected over firewire and works fine in arch) and be able later > to copy them back from the DVD's to a harddrive, if i happen to need > it. > > for now i do not need to use vista, it takes over 3 minutes to boot up > (arch boots in 42s including diverse daemons and kdm, kde login > happens in 10s with quite some apps open) and is quite unstable (yes, > it is up-to-date). > > i have checked and there exist > > Mondo > http://www.mondorescue.org/ > > Ghost 4 Linux (g4l) > http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l > > mondo seems to be able to make CD/DVDs directly, g4l not. i don't mind > burning the iso's by hand, if the image creation and later recovery > works perfect. > > of course there is dd -> iso and then burn. but i hoped that in the > last 16 years there was something more user-friendly available > now. :) > > any experiences? any other ideas? > > thanx in advance, > > Damir > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > Hi Damir,
Take a look on partimage (http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page). It is similar to g4l, but it doesn't requires an ftp server where to backup your partitions to (besides there is suport for backups across the network). Both partimage and g4l, backup only *used* filesystem's blocks (unlike dd that backups every block, used or empty). There is an option to compress the image using gzip (faster and less memory hungry) or bzip2. It can generate image files that automatically spans across many CDs/DVDs as needed. It doesn't have support to directly burn a CD or DVD, but have a fairly user-friendly curses based interface (as well as corresponding command line options). I've used it many times to backup and restore (without a glitch) partitions with varied filesystems (ext3, raiserfs, ntfs). Armando _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
