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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On May 30, 2002 07:03 am, James.Rocks@equant.com wrote:
I want to create an image of my Linux system (much like I use Norton Ghost to create a basic image of my Windows system) partially to insure against problems, partially so I can (occasionally) trash it and try something else?
Can ghost do this, if not what can? Also, to do it faster, I tend to copy a whole partition to another one (quicker than across my network) but Linux (at least on my system) is composed of three partitions: boot, swap & '/' so I guess have to do a whole disk image which means I can't (easily) do that to a local disk ... any ideas?
Ghost can do it, but it's really slow. I like Systemimager: http://www.systemimager.org It really rocks. It's fast (especially on a 100MB network), you don't need to open the case, it understands different distributions, you don't need to shut down your box to do a backup, supports RAID, and you can mess with your image while it's on the image server. I'm still using 1.4, but I understand that 2.0 has all kinds of neat configuration stuff. - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE89hQg+FOexA3koIgRAtYfAKCW2SRLiHQcv/9MCHwKHi5d28rh9gCcDkj0 oh4A7Rnorf6WJ9HG7DaOHtk= =z59a -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----