Server Cloning application

[Esquivel, Vicente]

Oh just found it it ......thanks 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of 
> Esquivel, Vicente
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 3:15 PM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: RE: Server Cloning application
> 
> Where would that be located, I cant seem to find it on my own 
> and the documentation doesn't go over that from what I can tell.
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Harold 
> > Hallikainen
> > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 3:04 PM
> > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> > Subject: RE: Server Cloning application
> > 
> > 
> > > So gl4 will make the image as big as the filesystem you 
> are cloning?
> > >
> > > Meaning if the server is 53GB with only 4GB being used by
> > OS and app,
> > > then the image will copy the entire disk?
> > >
> > > Therefore the image will be about 53GB in size or do I have
> > that wrong?
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > g4l includes an application that puts nulls in all unused 
> bytes on the 
> > disk. You can then tell it to create an image of the entire 
> disk, but 
> > with compression (I use gzip). The null bytes compress pretty well!
> > 
> > Harold
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > >> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On 
> Behalf Of Rick 
> > >> Stevens
> > >> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 12:29 PM
> > >> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> > >> Subject: Re: Server Cloning application
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 11:02 -0500, mylar wrote:
> > >> > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 09:48 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > >> > > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 10:11 -0600, Esquivel, Vicente wrote:
> > >> > > > Hello all,
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > Can anyone tell me what they use for cloning RH servers?
> > >> > >
> > >> > > Ghost4Linux (g4l) works well.  Good ol' ghost 2003 
> works, too.
> > >> > > We also use a disk duplicator.  Expensive, but a good way to 
> > >> > > clone
> > >> > > 5+ disks at a time.
> > >> > >
> > >> > Is there any advantage to using g4l over something like dd ???
> > >>
> > >> You can't use dd if the disks are dissimilar or the
> > partition sizes
> > >> are different.  dd is only really reliable with absolutely
> > identical
> > >> disks, and even then I'm skeptical as it does absolutely 
> no error 
> > >> checking.
> > >>
> > >> g4l can handle dissimilar partitions, disks and such and
> > does a fair
> > >> bit of error checking.  g4l is freeware.  Use it.
> > >>
> > >> 	http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l
> > >>
> > >> 
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