.has anyone ever used ghost for linuxbefore. Norton Ghost is supposed to support Linux products.ext2 filetype to be exact. So I take my hard drive of my current machine called A and put it another harddrive in it called B: then I start ghost and look for a disk to disk copy and it tells me there is not a valid source disk in the machine. What is the correct process to take a ghosted image file or to copy a hard drive, the Symantec help site is no help and I cant find it anywhere else.
Michael Garabedian wrote:
.has anyone ever used ghost for linuxbefore. Norton Ghost is supposed to support Linux products.ext2 filetype to be exact.
So I take my hard drive of my current machine called A and put it another harddrive in it called B: then I start ghost and look for a disk to disk copy and it tells me there is not a valid source disk in the machine.
What is the correct process to take a ghosted image file or to copy a hard drive, the Symantec help site is no help and I cant find it anywhere else.
I prefer to use dd for example, if you want to copy the hdb into hdc you can use: dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hdc bs=8196k man dd for bs options You can copy a partition only using /dev/hdX# is easy, fast and without software -- www.geekcode.com -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/cc/e/it d++ s+:+ a-- C++$ UL+++$ E++ W+++$ w--- O---- M V- PS PE+++ Y+ PGP- t+ 5 X++ R tv+ b++ DI-- D+ G e++$ h! r++ y++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ - A veces creo que hay vida en otros planetas, y a veces creo que no. En cualquiera de los dos casos, la conclusión es asombrosa (Carl Sagan) -----------------------------------------------------------------
I added a second hd to the second channel of the mb and then fired up ghost and did a disk to disk and it worked flawlessly.. I have never tried dd.. -----Original Message----- From: Hipolito A. Gonzalez M. [mailto:hgonzale@cantv.net] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 5:16 PM To: Michael Garabedian Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Ghost... Michael Garabedian wrote:
.has anyone ever used ghost for linuxbefore. Norton Ghost is supposed to support Linux products.ext2 filetype to be exact.
So I take my hard drive of my current machine called A and put it another harddrive in it called B: then I start ghost and look for a disk to disk copy and it tells me there is not a valid source disk in the machine.
What is the correct process to take a ghosted image file or to copy a hard drive, the Symantec help site is no help and I cant find it anywhere else.
I prefer to use dd for example, if you want to copy the hdb into hdc you can use: dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hdc bs=8196k man dd for bs options You can copy a partition only using /dev/hdX# is easy, fast and without software -- www.geekcode.com -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/cc/e/it d++ s+:+ a-- C++$ UL+++$ E++ W+++$ w--- O---- M V- PS PE+++ Y+ PGP- t+ 5 X++ R tv+ b++ DI-- D+ G e++$ h! r++ y++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ - A veces creo que hay vida en otros planetas, y a veces creo que no. En cualquiera de los dos casos, la conclusión es asombrosa (Carl Sagan) ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com
jazzyjay_30 wrote:
I added a second hd to the second channel of the mb and then fired up ghost and did a disk to disk and it worked flawlessly.. I have never tried dd..
Try dd and tell me. -- www.geekcode.com -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/cc/e/it d++ s+:+ a-- C++$ UL+++$ E++ W+++$ w--- O---- M V- PS PE+++ Y+ PGP- t+ 5 X++ R tv+ b++ DI-- D+ G e++$ h! r++ y++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ - A veces creo que hay vida en otros planetas, y a veces creo que no. En cualquiera de los dos casos, la conclusión es asombrosa (Carl Sagan) -----------------------------------------------------------------
Greetings Michael, I'd be careful with ghost, I read an article in InfoWorld Magazine's "The Gripe Line" (DEC 17th, 2001 Issue 51 page 49) called "A Ghost of a chance - Users should expect to get the software they bargained for not a skeleton of a familiar, more robust product" in the article they talk about how Symantec's bottom of the line products may be crippled. Be really careful buying this product they may claim it does one thing but in actuality it does another, so if it doesn't specifically say it can do what you want, I would stay away from Symantec. They specifically made their website both misleading and confusing to promote sales. not to mention (as a small O.T. side note) the past history of this company screwing products up it does not suprise me at all, you just have to look back to what they have done to MSAV -IIRC, XTREE [ basterdized and then discontinued ], and several other products (which I can't remember now) they sucked the life out of and drove into the dirt and you will quickly learn that these folks are really screwed up and they only know how to wreck any decent software that was ever written. Again all in the name of sales. Well I really never did figure out the logic behind the buyout and destruction of Xtree. Anyway, I hate this company and I will never buy anything from them ever, I can not trust them, I will not trust them. I would go with "other advice" for alternative solutions (and possibly free solutions) if I were you. Even if someone handed me a legally registered anything by some-man-tick I wouldn't put that crap anywhere near my boxes. thanks On Thursday 28 February 2002 14:01, you wrote:
.has anyone ever used ghost for linuxbefore. Norton Ghost is supposed to support Linux products.ext2 filetype to be exact.
So I take my hard drive of my current machine called A and put it another harddrive in it called B: then I start ghost and look for a disk to disk copy and it tells me there is not a valid source disk in the machine.
What is the correct process to take a ghosted image file or to copy a hard drive, the Symantec help site is no help and I cant find it anywhere else.
-- Linux 2.4.7-4GB #1 Thu Oct 25 17:53:12 GMT 2001 i586
WWOOWWW>>> I can't follow this guys logic.. I have used ghost ever since I can remember it has always performed as advertised...With the latest release I have personally used it to remotely deploy over 700 windows 2000 systems... I also used it to re-invent a couple of file and print servers ( Redhat 7.2 and Suse 7.2 pro..) So I know it works as advertised... -----Original Message----- From: phil [mailto:phil@osbtown.com] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 5:47 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Ghost... (Red Flag should go up: Symantec sux) - Opinion Greetings Michael, I'd be careful with ghost, I read an article in InfoWorld Magazine's "The Gripe Line" (DEC 17th, 2001 Issue 51 page 49) called "A Ghost of a chance - Users should expect to get the software they bargained for not a skeleton of a familiar, more robust product" in the article they talk about how Symantec's bottom of the line products may be crippled. Be really careful buying this product they may claim it does one thing but in actuality it does another, so if it doesn't specifically say it can do what you want, I would stay away from Symantec. They specifically made their website both misleading and confusing to promote sales. not to mention (as a small O.T. side note) the past history of this company screwing products up it does not suprise me at all, you just have to look back to what they have done to MSAV -IIRC, XTREE [ basterdized and then discontinued ], and several other products (which I can't remember now) they sucked the life out of and drove into the dirt and you will quickly learn that these folks are really screwed up and they only know how to wreck any decent software that was ever written. Again all in the name of sales. Well I really never did figure out the logic behind the buyout and destruction of Xtree. Anyway, I hate this company and I will never buy anything from them ever, I can not trust them, I will not trust them. I would go with "other advice" for alternative solutions (and possibly free solutions) if I were you. Even if someone handed me a legally registered anything by some-man-tick I wouldn't put that crap anywhere near my boxes. thanks On Thursday 28 February 2002 14:01, you wrote:
.has anyone ever used ghost for linuxbefore. Norton Ghost is supposed to support Linux products.ext2 filetype to be exact.
So I take my hard drive of my current machine called A and put it another harddrive in it called B: then I start ghost and look for a disk to disk copy and it tells me there is not a valid source disk in the machine.
What is the correct process to take a ghosted image file or to copy a hard drive, the Symantec help site is no help and I cant find it anywhere else.
-- Linux 2.4.7-4GB #1 Thu Oct 25 17:53:12 GMT 2001 i586 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com
Looks like the old "your mileage may vary" debate. I've tried Ghost and it didn't work. It backed up the drive as advertised but wouldn't put it back on the same drive. It decided that the drive had suddenly become too small...actually, it decided that the amount of data that had been backed up was many times greater than the actual amount. It worked just fine on windows drives though. The verison I used also didn't want anything to do with journalling file systems. It couldn't read them at all. Gerry On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, jazzyjay_30 wrote:
WWOOWWW>>> I can't follow this guys logic.. I have used ghost ever since I can remember it has always performed as advertised...With the latest release I have personally used it to remotely deploy over 700 windows 2000 systems... I also used it to re-invent a couple of file and print servers ( Redhat 7.2 and Suse 7.2 pro..) So I know it works as advertised...
-----Original Message----- From: phil [mailto:phil@osbtown.com] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 5:47 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Ghost... (Red Flag should go up: Symantec sux) - Opinion
Greetings Michael,
I'd be careful with ghost, I read an article in InfoWorld Magazine's "The Gripe Line" (DEC 17th, 2001 Issue 51 page 49) called "A Ghost of a chance - Users should expect to get the software they bargained for not a skeleton of a familiar, more robust product" in the article they talk about how Symantec's bottom of the line products may be crippled. Be really careful buying this product they may claim it does one thing but in actuality it does another, so if it doesn't specifically say it can do what you want, I would stay away from Symantec. They specifically made their website both misleading and confusing to promote sales.
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