to clone or not to clone that is the question

[Dexter Ang]

john brennan-sardou wrote:
> hello everybody,
> 	here is my question for the day. Being sick and tired of windows but forced 
> every now and then to use it, I have always put my faith in Ghost and it does 
> seem to save those really awful moments in ones computor life. Is there a 
> program under linux with which I can do the same thing? In other words can I 
> clone linux onto a DVD or not? 
> 	Thanks for everything,
> 					John Brennan-Sardou

Clone or backup to a DVD? I've just cloned 20 harddrives using g4u 
(Ghost 4 Unix) this past few days. Dumped the entire harddrive data to 
an internal ftp server. Then restored the image to all 20 harddrives. Of 
course, you need a separate computer with g4u.

If it's backing up your data that you want, look for other solutions 
that can backup your data incrementally and restore them as well. I 
think mondo rescue is recommended for this. I'm sure there are other 
solutions as well.

Just wondering... is Ghost able to dump an image of the harddrive 
straight onto a DVD?

dex