Also, G4U does this pretty well. I think g4u will let you upload the image to an FTP site as well. http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
-- Brad Bendily - CNA/CLE On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Christian Tortorich wrote: > Awesome scott thanks for the help ill try this out this week and let you > know how it went. I knew this was the right place to ask this question! > > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Scott Harney > Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 8:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] bare metal restore RAID 5 partition > > Christian Tortorich wrote: > > I have had this nagging problem for a bit and was wondering if anyone > > knew a way to accomplish it (relatively painlessly) > > knoppix can help. It comes with partimage which can easily image NTFS > partitions. You need a temporary place to store the data > > Here's how I did it. > > http://www.scottharney.com/cgi-bin/blog.cgi/Computers/OS/Linux/Tips/knop > pix_and_partimage.writeback > > > basically I had a solaris box nearby running nfs so I saved the image > temporarily to an nfs share. But you could save it to a locally attached > > extra disk (firewire, usb2) because knoppix will recognize that or even > a samba share. > > knoppix recognizes all the perc controllers I've thrown at it up to > PERC/4 > > > > > > I have an entire new disk set for a raid5 volume on one of my servers > > (which happens to be win2k). The old volume is slow and crunchy and > > generally frightening. I was wondering if anyone knew of a relatively > > painless way to migrate that set over to another disk set of different > > sized disks, OS and all. > > > > The problem is it's a win2k box that was set up before I got here and > > both OS and data are mixed on the volume. It's a webserver hosting > > multiple domains and would generally be a pain to migrate. I know this > > isn't really a linux question but I was wondering if anyone had solved > > this before (not theoretically, but actually done it) > > > > BTW, If I put the new disks into the box with the old ones and create > a > > new volume, it tanks after 6-8 hours or so (yay for PERC raid > > controllers..... hip hip....not so much?) > > > > Is there a way to maybe boot into a liveCD and dd the thing over the > > network to a file on another box and swap em out? Thoughts? > > > > Chris > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > >
