Re: best gpl'd norton ghost-like solution?

[Alan Harding <alanh flashmail com>]

My fave is 

http://rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/g4u/

Its easy, and if you have a fast network and a good FTP server, it doesnt take to long. Also it will work from Boot floppy and CDROM 


On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 14:55:12 -0400
Michael Gargiullo <mgargiullo warpdrive net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 14:45, john lawler wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  
> > I'm looking into rolling out a few RH9 machine and need to be able to
> > make rock-solid disk images of them in a flexible manner such that I
> > can burn the results out to multiple CDs or store them on harddrives. 
> > I would like this to work how Norton Ghost does for Windows machines,
> > in that the application would have to recognize the files systems (so
> > that I wouldn't get a 10GB image for a 10GB drive that only has 1.5GB
> > used, e.g.) and allow me to complete the whole process w/ minimal
> > messing around.
> >  
> > I'm currently looking at <a href=www.partimage.org>partimage</a> as a
> > solution, but I'm finding it rather cumbersome to install, especially
> > since I'd like to make these backup images over the network and the
> > only solution they provide is to install this partimaged server, which
> > I'd rather not do, b/c I see it as an unecessary complication.
> >  
> > I've also examined the <a
> > href=www.systemrescuecd.org>systemrescuecd</a> as a solution for
> > booting the machines up w/ a pretty functional version of Linux in a
> > ramdisk, so I'd like to continue w/ that approach.
> >  
> > So, after all the above description, what do you all use to handle
> > your image backup procedures (especially when you do not have adequate
> > harddrive space on the machine to be backed up)?
> >  
> > Thanks,
> >  
> > John Lawler
> 
> I rsync my entire filesystem to another machine. This is also how I do
> backups on some machines.  I can build identical machines all day long
> if I want to.
> 
> Just don't rsync the /proc or /mnt directories.
> 
> Buy a 200 Gig IDE hard drive, they're $200 (ish).  I have a pair of them
> in drive caddies that get swapped out once a week on the machine that
> everything gets backed up to.  Right now 22 machines get Rsync'd to it. 
> 
> If a machine crashes, or we need a duplicate machine, it takes about 20
> minutes, only about 5 of which is hands on.
> 
> Now across a LAN time isn't that big an issue, across a WAN...  well how
> big is your pipe?
> 
> 
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> Michael Gargiullo <mgargiullo warpdrive net>
> Warp Drive Networks
> 
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