Norton Ghost works very well.. Yes it IS dos- but it can be run from a
floppy.
You can backup partitions and whole drives., its compresses the image to
make things easier to store.
Storage mediums include File, CDR, and even Tape if you have the SCSI
drivers.
A very nice package..
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Craig Genner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "dev info" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] backup question
> Norton Ghost also....
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Craig Genner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 6:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] backup question
>
>
> > There is a program called Partition Image (www.partimage.org) that might
> be
> > what you need/want.
> >
> > Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX partition imaging utility: it saves
> > partitions in the Ext2FS, ReiserFS, NTFS or FAT16/32, file system
formats
> to
> > an image file.
> >
> > Only used blocks are copied, therefore saving space. The image file can
be
> > compressed in the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to save disk space, and split into
> > multiple files to be copied on floppies (ZIP for example), or burned on
a
> > CD-R. This allows you to save a full Linux/Windows system, with an only
> > operation. When problems, such as viruses or crashes occur, you just
have
> to
> > restore, and after several minutes, all your system is restored, and
fully
> > working
> >
> > It is available in most formats and is from 300k to 400k (the rpm is
> > 387k).
> > If you try it please let me know what you think.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Craig
> >
> > P.S. You could try Norton Ghost (a dos program - no flames please), it
can
> > read Ext2FS and you can chose between a disk or partitions to backup.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Lotas T Smartman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 3:17 AM
> > Subject: [e-smith-devinfo] backup question
> >
> >
> > > I want to backup my e-smith server. I have made a few costomisions to
> it,
> > > like added support for my winmodem, installed php4.0.5, and 1 or 2
other
> > > little things. I need to backup EVERYTHING!!! I, unfortunitly, dont
have
> a
> > > tape backup drive. Is there a script that i can get that can backup
the
> > > entire contents of my drive to a tar.gz file? Its something i think i
> > sould
> > > start doing cause i have fairly old hardware, and cant realy trust it
> > much.
> > > Please help. Thanks.
> > > PS. I would like something like the backup from harddrive. Even if
there
> > was
> > > an option for bootable CD or something, just something that makes a
> > > compressed image of my drive, so i can download it of the server and
> burn
> > to
> > > a CD. Thanks!
> > > -----------------------------------------
> > > Lotas T Smartman
> > > CEO, LSN
> > > Dublin, Ireland
> > > www.lotas-smartman.net
> > > www.lsn-search.net
> > > freemail.lsnmail.net
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