On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 11:45:52AM +0200, Mihalis I. Tsoukalos wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 01:12:48AM -0800, j smith wrote:
> > ghost program can copy files in an partition exactly.
> >
> > is there any ghost-like program for Linux platforms?
>
> dd
>
partimage
Note that "cp" of parted mov
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 01:12:48AM -0800, j smith wrote:
> ghost program can copy files in an partition exactly.
>
> is there any ghost-like program for Linux platforms?
dd
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also sprach Carel Fellinger (on Sat, 03 Mar 2001 02:17:44AM +0100):
> reading your reaction gives me the eery feeling I've missed what
> this thread was about. To me that's the single most horrible thing
> that comes from mailing-lists instead of plain good old netnews,
> you loose context easily.
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 02:59:25PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote:
reading your reaction gives me the eery feeling I've missed what
this thread was about. To me that's the single most horrible thing
that comes from mailing-lists instead of plain good old netnews,
you loose context easily. I know I should
also sprach Peter Jay Salzman (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 12:14:36PM -0800):
> true. it's called initrd. rd for ramdisk.
>
> > utmp/wtmp,
>
> what does the kernel have to do with utmp and wtmp? why would the kernel
> care about who is logging into your system?
okay, i see where you are coming fro
On Fri 02 Mar 01, 2:59 PM, MaD dUCK said:
> also sprach Carel Fellinger (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:30:56PM +0100):
> > /var: copy it to /tmp first?
> >or add rescue.bin and boot.catalog to /var?
>
> thing is: the boot process needs scratch space.
true. it's called initrd. rd for ramdi
also sprach Carel Fellinger (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:30:56PM +0100):
> /var: copy it to /tmp first?
>or add rescue.bin and boot.catalog to /var?
thing is: the boot process needs scratch space. log files, utmp/wtmp,
pid files and all that jazz. these reside in /var, and a bootable
cdrom mu
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:12:29PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote:
> also sprach Carel Fellinger (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:52:31PM +0100):
> > Nah, dead simple:) using cdrecord/mkisofs/xcdroast from woody (sources)
>
> sure thing, but what about files in /var? what's /? what's "from boot
> to prompt?"
/var:
Hmm, I would think the old 'tar' trick is safer than using dd (unless the disks
are completly
identical):
Mount from disk and the to disk in under a booted linux, so like from/ and to/
then
(cd from; tar -cpf - .) | (cd ../to; tar -xpf -)
There are probably some arguments I'm forgetting to mak
also sprach Carel Fellinger (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:52:31PM +0100):
> Nah, dead simple:) using cdrecord/mkisofs/xcdroast from woody (sources)
sure thing, but what about files in /var? what's /? what's "from boot
to prompt?"
martin
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On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:36:24PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote:
> also sprach Alvin Oga (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 06:25:31PM -0800):
> > donno...not everybody makes a bootable cdrom for their backups...
> > i think its nuts...to make a cdrom backup... but..oh well...
>
> a bootable cdrom is quite hard to mak
hi ya
yup have real work to do..
have fun linuxing
alvin
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, MaD dUCK wrote:
> also sprach Alvin Oga (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 06:56:33PM -0800):
> > never minddont bother to reply...
>
> very cooperative.
also sprach Alvin Oga (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 06:56:33PM -0800):
> never minddont bother to reply...
very cooperative.
martin
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hi ya mad...
never minddont bother to reply...
did not say many things eithere...
c ya
alvin
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, MaD dUCK wrote:
> also sprach Alvin Oga (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 06:25:31PM -0800):
> > donno...not everybody makes a bootable cdrom for their backups...
> > i think its nuts...to
also sprach Alvin Oga (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 06:25:31PM -0800):
> donno...not everybody makes a bootable cdrom for their backups...
> i think its nuts...to make a cdrom backup... but..oh well...
a bootable cdrom is quite hard to make... rockridge extensions and all
that jazz. no, you cannot just "dd
h iya max...
yeah...if i dd...have no plans to change it around
donno...not everybody makes a bootable cdrom for their backups...
i think its nuts...to make a cdrom backup... but..oh well...
taring does NOT copy teh boot info...so your disk is NOT yet
bootable till you run lilo onit...
also sprach Alvin Oga (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 06:16:26PM -0800):
> except for partitions that are like 90% full than i dd' um
... at the expense of not being able to change partition size or file
system format...
> and yeah...all of the "system" is already on cdrom but guess
> some like to b
hi ya...
yeah i ususlly use tar...
except for partitions that are like 90% full than i dd' um
and yeah...all of the "system" is already on cdrom but guess
some like to burn a "installed cdrom"... oh well...
- hopefuly thats patched and debugged and cleaned up version
and al
also sprach Alvin Oga (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 05:54:35PM -0800):
> > Is there ne open-source clone or equivalent of Norton Ghost ? I want to
> > ghost my debian box before fiddlin around with it..
this is the beauty about a non-obscure os: i did this many times
before and i never really wanted some g
hi ya...
i assume oyu have a second disk...
( make sure its the same sized disks to keep things simple )
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
-- problem with ghost and dd is that it will also copy bad block info
from the source to the 2nd disk...
- disks now days are good enough that "bad blo
Ankit Jain wrote:
>
> Is there ne open-source clone or equivalent of Norton Ghost ? I want to
> ghost my debian box before fiddlin around with it..
I ghosted my debian using tar.
if you move the tar of everything to different disk you have to update
the /mnt/fstab and of course set the lilo
Is there ne open-source clone or equivalent of Norton Ghost ? I want to
ghost my debian box before fiddlin around with it..
-anks
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