g4u rocks. i use it all the time to back up workstations before making any radical changes, that way i can always revert back to the original image if something goes wrong.
for those of you who don't know, g4u (ghost for unix) is a freebsd floppy that allows you to create and restore disk images to a ftp server. it works on ide and scsi systems, and systems with multiple disks. it is completely OS independent and will image a disk no matter what is on it. note that it works on disks, not partitions. all you need is a system with a floppy drive and a nic. the image is copied to a ftp server, so you'll need to set that up before using g4u. uploading the image can take a while, particularly on a slow machine with a large hard drive (the image is gzipped on the fly with level 9 compression, so it eats a lot of cpu cycles). downloading images is much faster, some times taking a little as ten or fifteen minutes. i used g4u on a project about a year ago where i had to clone 15 workstations. using g4u i uploaded the master image to a server and then ran four downloads simultaneously. took a total of four hours to do them all, and all worked perfectly after imaging. jason On Monday 25 August 2003 11:13, Jim Ray wrote: > agreed. i have norton enterprise ghost at 5 client sites. works > like a charm. i haven't heard anyone mention a linux-based solution. > > is g4u used in this neck of the woods? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chris Bullock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 10:05 AM > > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list > > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Computer Getting Slow > > > > > > We use Nortons, Enterprise Ghost, Well worth the money!!! > > > > Jim Ray wrote: > > >just curious...whadaya use for image server software? -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
