[KLUG Members] drive ghosting

[Rusty Yonkers]

On Tuesday 29 January 2002 10:00 am, you wrote:
> 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, ....

do you tar each partition to a file?  Then later do you create the file and 
then untar the tarball to it?  I guess I would need a linux boot diskette for 
that right?  

We switch between operating systems constantly in here because we teach 
Windows, and Linux, and Novell.  Also, the students are fairly green so this 
has to be somewhat easy.  

>
> 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.
>
> --------------------------------------------
> 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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