[KLUG Members] drive ghosting

[Bruce Smith]

> We are using Ghost to save images of configurations
> that we use in class.  It is working fine with Windows
> software but we are having loads of problems with
> Linux.  Sometimes we can just do a fsck to fix the
> problem but other times we get kernel panics at boot
> etc and this is causing great consternation.  Does
> anyone know of a better solution?  We are using Ghost
> 2000 currently.  Has anyone used the newest versions
> of Ghost on Linux?

I've never used Ghost because Linux has all the utilities
required to save and restore itself.

You can copy a Linux (system or non-system) partition 
to another disk partition (or tape or CDR or ...) with
tar, cpio, ....

The only thing required after copying a bootable system
is to edit the new /etc/fstab and fix the partitions
numbers, and make it bootable (very easy with GRUB).

I do it all the time, and keep a backup partition that
is bootable on most of my Linux systems.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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