Were you restoring to a different hardware platform (Different RAID Controller) when you were using the ghost ? what was the problem ?
Nick Musa --- Yaman Saqqa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i wouldn't think cpio would get me the MBR and > partitioning info. The > idea is to plug in a version HD, restore an "image", > and be back in > production. > > > On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 09:26:25 +0200, Zaid Amireh > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > cpio > > > > On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 08:12:47 +0200, Aram Yegenian > > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > well in the true spirit of /. let's troll... > > > > > > pfff, i just raid-0 a couple of gmail accounts > and mount /home and /etc on that! > > > > > > or in the words of Linus Torvalds... > > > "Only wimps use tape backup: real men just > upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the > rest of the world mirror it." > > > > > > ;-) > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Yaman Saqqa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: "Jordan Linux User Group Mailing list" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Subject: [JoLUG-General] Ask JoLUG (as in > AskSlashdot) :) > > > Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 13:12:16 +0200 > > > > > > > > > > > Guys, > > > > > > > > I have a couple of machines that have no form > of redundancy > > > > whatsoever. I want to make a clone of the > hard drives for minimal > > > > restore time in cases of emergancy. The > problem with dd is that it's a > > > > byte-to-byte copy so if say I had 1% > utilization on an 80GB drive ... > > > > shoot u get the picture. I thought of Norton > Ghost, Backup was gr8 but > > > > I had trouble with the restore. > > > > > > > > Any suggestions/experiences? > > > > > > > > -- > > > > abulyomon > > > > > > > > www.KiLLTHeUPLiNK.com > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > General mailing list > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > http://jolug.org/mailman/listinfo/general_jolug.org > > > > > > > > > /dev/aram > > > > > > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Find what you are looking for with the Lycos > Yellow Pages > > > > http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > General mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > http://jolug.org/mailman/listinfo/general_jolug.org > > > > > > > > > -- > > --------------------------- > > http://tumbak.preempted.net > > --------------------------- > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://jolug.org/mailman/listinfo/general_jolug.org > > > > > -- > abulyomon > > www.KiLLTHeUPLiNK.com > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://jolug.org/mailman/listinfo/general_jolug.org > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jolug.org/mailman/listinfo/general_jolug.org
