Re: [newbie] Can I Ghost entire drive including Linux
That's bizarre Roman M Thompson wrote: Mark, I run it from a 1.5 GB spare FAT hard drive. Norton Ghost can ghost a Linux partition, but it doesn't like to save the image to a Linux partition. Matt From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Can I Ghost entire drive including Linux Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 19:06:19 -0400 (EDT) Am I understanding correctly that this Ghost is run from the DOS partition on not the Linux partition? -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Romanator wrote: What a deal. I have to admit, it is a lifesaver. Roman M Thompson wrote: Roman, Norton Ghost will accomplish this task for you. I have a spare 1.5 GB drive in my PC that I use to hold the image file. My other drive is an 18 GB drive. Norton Ghost is able to compress the image file too. Take care, Matt From: Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Can I Ghost entire drive including Linux Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 12:07:28 -0500 Hi everybody, Is it possible to create an image file with all partitions, including Linux? Roman Registered Linux User #179232 Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
[newbie] Can I Ghost entire drive including Linux
Hi everybody, Is it possible to create an image file with all partitions, including Linux? Roman Registered Linux User #179232
Re: [newbie] Can I Ghost entire drive including Linux
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 12:07:28PM -0500, Romanator wrote: Is it possible to create an image file with all partitions, including Linux? If your partition is smaller than 2 GB, a dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/hdb/output-file will do it. This will create the file output-file in /mnt/hdb. You should take care to save the file (output-file) in a directory which is not on the same drive though. If your partition is bigger than 2 GB, you're in bad luck with dd. It can only read/write files upto 2GB max (currently). To still be able to backup your whole drive, first save the parition entries to a file. sfdisk -lx will print out all the entries. Then something like "tar spcfvI /tmp/MyBackupFile.tar.bz2 -C / . --exclude=/tmp/MyBackupFile.tar.bz2". This will create a bzip2'd tar file containing all your files in /tmp called MyBackupFile.tar.bz2. If this still results in a file bigger than 2 GB (tar can also not handle this), think about tar'ing all the dirs seperately. HTH Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191
Re: [newbie] Can I Ghost entire drive including Linux
Hi -- I have used Ghost (I think version 5, but I'm not sure) to copy drives. It works fine for NT and OS/2, but I've not gotten good results with Linux. Has anybody tried the most recent version of Ghost? On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, you wrote: On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 12:07:28PM -0500, Romanator wrote: Is it possible to create an image file with all partitions, including Linux? If your partition is smaller than 2 GB, a dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/hdb/output-file will do it. This will create the file output-file in /mnt/hdb. You should take care to save the file (output-file) in a directory which is not on the same drive though. If your partition is bigger than 2 GB, you're in bad luck with dd. It can only read/write files upto 2GB max (currently). To still be able to backup your whole drive, first save the parition entries to a file. sfdisk -lx will print out all the entries. Then something like "tar spcfvI /tmp/MyBackupFile.tar.bz2 -C / . --exclude=/tmp/MyBackupFile.tar.bz2". This will create a bzip2'd tar file containing all your files in /tmp called MyBackupFile.tar.bz2. If this still results in a file bigger than 2 GB (tar can also not handle this), think about tar'ing all the dirs seperately. HTH Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ: 7328191 -- Pete Clapham Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences Cleveland State University Cleveland, Ohio, 44115 Voice: [216] 687-4820 Fax:[216] 523-7200 EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Can I Ghost entire drive including Linux
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 03:55:47PM -0400, Pete Clapham wrote: I have used Ghost (I think version 5, but I'm not sure) to copy drives. Why use an "external" commercial programm, when all you need is already available with the tools that come with your Linux OS? PS: Please quote only as much as possible. Thanks. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys ICQ:7328191
Re: [newbie] Can I Ghost entire drive including Linux
Am I understanding correctly that this Ghost is run from the DOS partition on not the Linux partition? -- Mark I love my Linux Box... REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. Registered Linux user # 182496 On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Romanator wrote: What a deal. I have to admit, it is a lifesaver. Roman M Thompson wrote: Roman, Norton Ghost will accomplish this task for you. I have a spare 1.5 GB drive in my PC that I use to hold the image file. My other drive is an 18 GB drive. Norton Ghost is able to compress the image file too. Take care, Matt From: Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Can I Ghost entire drive including Linux Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 12:07:28 -0500 Hi everybody, Is it possible to create an image file with all partitions, including Linux? Roman Registered Linux User #179232 Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Can I Ghost entire drive including Linux
Why use ghost? just become root and do a dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/whatever substitute the whatever with the file that represents the hard disk you are trying to dump to. Works great :-) Dan -- Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. -- Mark Twain
