Have been looking at the doc and can't find a single thing wrong with this one ( http://www.systemimager.org ), in other words it looks perfect! Thanks Neil.
// George On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 12:40:12AM -0800, Neil Schneider wrote: >Take a look at systemimager http://www.systemimager.org It's suitable for >cloning machines, and it will boot from a network, if you have all the >proper pieces in place, dhcpd, dns and tftp, and it's relatively fast. I >use it for saving special configurations I build, on a machine >specifically for this purpose. > >begin quoting George Georgalis : >> On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 03:49:27PM -0800, Rick Schultz wrote: >> >> >On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 06:11:36PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: >> > >> >> I'm looking for a way to make a network backup of an install, and >> >> restore that to another box with a different size disk. tomsrtbt >> >> would work fine if it supported reiser filesystems >> > >> >If you want the whole filesystem, you can copy the entire partition >> >with dd. You wouldn't need reiserfs support, since you wouldn't really >> >be interacting with the filesystem, just the partition. >> > >> >After restoring the partition to a target machine, it could be resized >> >with parted. >> >> It's the fdisk/mkreiserfs, restore rsync ssh/nfs (not using dd) that I'm >> stuck on. >> >> Also should have been more clear, cdrom drives are not available, need >> to use a floppy (or two) and the network. >> >> Using dd like you say sounds like a lot of trouble. I think it would be >> easier to make floppies with rsync ssh reiser kernel etc. >> >> >In either case, check out Timo's Rescue CD set >> >(http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/) as well as the Gentoo Live CD. I >> >think both will have all the tools you're looking for. >> >> Haven't seen that one before. Looks like it has a floppy section >> too. Will check it out! >> >> // George >> >> -- >> GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 347-451-8229 >> Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Multimedia, DB, DNS and Metrics. http://www.galis.org/george >> >> >> -- >> http://www.kernel-panic.org >> list archives http://www.ultraviolet.org >> To unsubscribe, send a message to the address shown in the list-unsubscribe >> header of this message. >> > >-- >Neil Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.paccomp.com >Key fingerprint = 67F0 E493 FCC0 0A8C 769B 8209 32D7 1DB1 8460 C47D >If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, > then each of us still has one object. >If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them, > then each of us now has two ideas. > > >-- > http://www.kernel-panic.org > list archives http://www.ultraviolet.org > To unsubscribe, send a message to the address shown in the list-unsubscribe > header of this message. > -- GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 347-451-8229 Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Multimedia, DB, DNS and Metrics. http://www.galis.org/george -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
