Norton's Ghost http://www.ghost.com does NOT support windows 2000
(just checked) and does NOT support any Linux ext2 O/S.
The version 5 of Norton Ghost does INDEED support ext2. I have used it a couple times
to clone a hard disk, and it even resized a partition correctly.
Bob
Your description of ghost makes me a bit nervous. I conjecture from it
that ghost backs up partitions as disk images, not file by file. This has
two problems.
{snip}
It backs up file by file.
Norton's Ghost http://www.ghost.com does NOT support windows 2000
(just checked) and does NOT
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 12:39:04 -0600 (MDT), you wrote:
Your description of ghost makes me a bit nervous. I conjecture from it
that ghost backs up partitions as disk images, not file by file. This has
two problems.
{snip}
It backs up file by file.
Norton's Ghost http://www.ghost.com does NOT
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 01:14:23AM +0200, Leopold Palomo wrote:
Dear Charles Curley,
thanks a lot for the answer. In which month will be published your wonderful
article?. I came from Catalonia, and I have some difficulties to find this
magazine. I have access to the translation version.
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 06:09:18 -0600, you wrote:
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:30:29PM -0600, Steve Browne wrote:
I personally think that tape is an outdated solution. I equipped my
tower case with "mobile" drive docks, so I can pop HDDs in and out at
will. I back up Mandrake with a Win98
Your description of ghost makes me a bit nervous. I conjecture from it
that ghost backs up partitions as disk images, not file by
file. This has
two problems.
Ghost can back up partitions or entire disks as images.
1) Since a partition image is backed up, it backs up empty
blocks
Here, here!
Ghost is a great littlle kick-ass backup utility. It has pulled my bacon out to
the fire more that once. It does have the capability of pulling individual
files out of it security catalog for install on Linux native FS but you must
write the program for Linux to do this. Norton only
Submitted 25-Jul-00 by Christopher Cox:
Well man dump yielded no results here. I use either tar or cpio.
A standard way that Unix backs things up is with cpio.
If Mandrake would fix their version, backup would be:
I have seen you say this a few times, so I decided to check out the
problem.
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 02:48:58 +0100, you wrote:
What I had in mind was (1) a Linux only solution and (2) using a tape as
the backup device. The reason is that many of my company's customers
(rural telephone cooperatives) would like to become ISPs and my
supervisor wanted me to come up with a
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:30:29PM -0600, Steve Browne wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 02:48:58 +0100, you wrote:
What I had in mind was (1) a Linux only solution and (2) using a tape as
the backup device. The reason is that many of my company's customers
(rural telephone cooperatives) would
characters (*?[]$) in single quotes
cpio -icduvm '/PARTICULAR/SUBDIRECTORY/*' /dev/WHATEVERDEV
I hope this helps Mark.
Regards
Christopher Cox
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From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Backup and restore systems
Date
Dear Charles Curley,
thanks a lot for the answer. In which month will be published your wonderful
article?. I came from Catalonia, and I have some difficulties to find this
magazine. I have access to the translation version. However, I will try to
pay attention in it.
And, well, I have check my
Dear Charles Curley,
thanks a lot for the answer. In which month will be published your
wonderful
article?. I came from Catalonia, and I have some difficulties to find
this
magazine. I have access to the translation version. However, I will try
to
pay attention in it.
And, well, I have check my
cpio -icduvm '/PARTICULAR/SUBDIRECTORY/*' /dev/WHATEVERDEV
I hope this helps Mark.
Regards
Christopher Cox
--
From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Backup and restore systems
Date: Monday, July 24, 2000 3:28 PM
What I wouldn't mind knowing
(*?[]$) in single quotes
cpio -icduvm '/PARTICULAR/SUBDIRECTORY/*' /dev/WHATEVERDEV
I hope this helps Mark.
Regards
Christopher Cox
--
From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Backup and restore systems
Date: Monday, July 24, 2000
What I had in mind was (1) a Linux only solution and (2) using a tape as
the backup device. The reason is that many of my company's customers
(rural telephone cooperatives) would like to become ISPs and my
supervisor wanted me to come up with a Linux solution; besides, I have
only one hard drive
check out BRU
on 7/23/00 11:55 PM, Leopold Palomo wrote:
Hi list,
I have a trouble in the job, and I need to design a way to restore a
complete system. I want to say that I have a computer working, and I
would like to make complete backup and a way to restore it by a person
without any
Just do not use cpio with versions greater than or equal to 7.
It would appear Mandrake broke it. I have yet for anyone to respond as to
why.
Regards
Christopher Cox
Check out Mondo-Rescue
http://freshmeat.net/appindex/2000/03/20/953566206.html
At 08:55 AM 7/24/00 +0200, you wrote:
I have a trouble in the job, and I need to design a way to restore a
complete system. I want to say that I have a computer working, and I
would like to make complete backup and a
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 08:55:35AM +0200, Leopold Palomo wrote:
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 21:05:49 +0200
From: Leopold Palomo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Backup and restore systems
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7C-CCK-MCD [ca] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14-15mdk i686)
Date:
Mondo-Rescue (below) seems to be only for CDRs. Which is a good
procedure/application for disaster recovery when backing up with tape
using tar/gz, taper, or kdat?
Thanks.
---Norvell Spearman
Jeff Groves wrote:
Check out Mondo-Rescue
What I wouldn't mind knowing is, is there a list of commands that one
would use to utilize dump? From reading the man files for this utility
I've been able to create some backup files, but have no idea of how to
restore the bcked up files to their original place.
Christopher Cox wrote:
Just
- Original Message -
From: "Charles Curley" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] Backup and restore systems
You need the article I have sent to Linux Journal for publication,
entitled "Bare Metal Bac
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 18:59:23 +0100, you wrote:
Mondo-Rescue (below) seems to be only for CDRs. Which is a good
procedure/application for disaster recovery when backing up with tape
using tar/gz, taper, or kdat?
Thanks.
---Norvell Spearman
I back up from hard disk to hard disk with Ghost. It
Submitted 24-Jul-00 by Mark Weaver:
What I wouldn't mind knowing is, is there a list of commands that one
would use to utilize dump? From reading the man files for this utility
I've been able to create some backup files, but have no idea of how to
restore the bcked up files to their original
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote:
Mondo-Rescue (below) seems to be only for CDRs. Which is a good
procedure/application for disaster recovery when backing up with tape
using tar/gz, taper, or kdat?
I would be inclined to go with the console app, because you
may not always be ABLE to start the
well...sort of. Are there any others? and are there other arguments that
you might use with the restore command? Like /path/to/backup_file
/path/to/filesystem/to-be/restored and such things like that.
The man files for dump and restore leave a lot to my imagination.
--
Mark
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