Wondering if there is an equivalent of Norton Ghost for Linux (using RH8) so I can create a backup image of the OS. Any idea??
Thanks.

you can create an image with dd.
If you are using this to craete backups there are better ways, like cpio or tar.

Now with 'dd' are you able to then put that on CD so you can boot and restore later? More info on that would be awesome, I might want to look into that.

Thanks!

I use dd to archive an image of a bootable cd ie
dd if=/dev/hdc of=dumpfile
To save my linux partition to tape or another disk/partition as root
I type

cd /
tar -cpvlzf nnn

where for expmple nnn is /dev/st0 for scsi tape
or /disk2/dumpfile.taz in my case to dump to my 2nd hd
hope this helps

Gee thanks, even I was hoping to find something easier and straightforward like Ghost.

I think the latest version of Norton Ghost now supports the linux file system. I did manage to create a backup of my system and write to cd albeit it was spammed over 4 cds. However the problem I encountered was it would not restore. I know this is of no use to you if you cannot restore it but the backup claimed it was successful. Maybe someone could explain to me where they think I went wrong if they have tried a similar thing themselves. If you want to check out latest Ghost and try it out, i hope you have more success. Incidentally I used Ghost 2001.

Good luck

atko.

Thanks for your reply,
we use Norton Ghost quite a lot at work, remember reading once about Linux support, but cannot find any info on the latest Ghost 2002. I have seen some other programs around, but still beta versions, looking for something more reliable.

Ghost 2003 will _apparently_ do it
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...99021909463125

Another product that images a drive/partition is "Drive Image" by a company named "Power Quest." Drive Image was up to version 6.x, when I last checked. The big plus to this product is that it images DOS, Linux (Ext2/3), MS Win (Fat 16/32, NTFS v4/v5), and O/S2's HPFS. I use Drive Image and Ghost, I like Drive Image better!!!

http://www.powerquest.com

yes norton ghost 2002 or later should work when making an image, and if it doesn't boot i think all you have to do is re-configure lilo ..
you can even look into GNU Parted or mondo rescue which are linux based backup utilitys...

I have successfully been able to use Symantec Ghost 7.0 to ghost a RedHat 8.0 disk.

Here is the catch.... the only way that has worked has been a disk to disk. I've been trying a bunch of wireless configurations and need to restore back to a certain point when I "f" everything up... I keep the origional on an IDE HD & slave it in when I need to restore. Not pritty.. but functional. ;-)

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Wait, I'm confused... I've been looking at Norton Ghost and everything I've seen says that you really should run Ghost on the drive you're backing up. Well, that means they should offer a Linux version for download, right? Everything I've seen suggest that they only have Windows versions. Same for Drive Image.

I've tried Ghost and I couldn't find a way to make an image of a network drive even if I wanted to. But like I said, their documentation says it's inadvisable.

How have you all been doing it? Over the network or on the local machine? If you're running it on the local machine, where can I find tar or rpms for that?

You can do network and local backup tasks using Mondo Rescue. It has a simple GUI that's very friendly -although if you want it to be very powerful you'll need to do some man pages reading but it's not really difficult - and you can even crontab it! very good utility, use it to backup through NFS mount very easiy.

Well, if I had my choice, I'd like to be able to backup over my LAN from a Windows machine. That's why I was originally interested in Ghost. I'd like to be able to backup my Linux box over a mapped Network drive (via Samba) from my Windows machine.

That's how I'd /like/ to do it, but if that's not advisable or not practical then I'd prefer to have something that I can manipulate it using SSH so I can run it from my Windows machine. Can Mondo do that?

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