Norton Ghost With Fedora Core 2
I am using FC2 at the moument, i tweaked the system and just want to backup my system and next time i will not need to tweak it again when reinstalling FC2
I have Norton Ghost 2003, Filesystem 1K-blocks used ava used% mnt pt /dev/hda5 7598360 3376148 3836228 47% / /dev/hda3 99075 7596 86364 9% /boot none 128488 0 128488 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda2 20470016 10684496 9785520 53% /mnt/fat32 Which partition i have to Ghost in order to achieve, i have heard that when using Ghost for backup, Ghost uses sector copy, that need loads of disk to backup the whole harddisk, or can i just backup some of the partitions???or neither... and i am using ext2fs file system one thing to add: i have seen that my Norton Ghost 2003 does not support even Rat Hat 9.0 at http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...&osv=&osv_lvl= do i need to buy, possibly prirate Symantec Ghost, to perform my operation??? thanks |
Hi Mr. hkl8324,
Forget all about that windows things. The system you have has better tools to do it. The partitions you have to save are /dev/hda3 (boot) and /dev/hda5 (/). You will need a boot disk to recover the system or even duplicate it. To save it, you will use tar. The command will be Code:
tar czv --one-file-system /boot / >"backup-file-name.tgz" How to restore or install in another hd: - boot with the boot floppy; - execute fdisk if needed to partition the disk; - execute mk2fs to format the partitions if needed or e2fsck to check it; - mount the target root partition in any directory; remember you are not running into the hd; your root probably is in memory now; so, you may create any directory as the target with mkdir; for example, Code:
mkdir /target Code:
mkdir /target/boot Code:
mkdir /backup - cd into /target - tar xzvf /backup/"backup-file-name.tgz" - After this, it's time to edit /target/etc/fstab and /target/boot/grub/grub.conf to the new partitions if you are installing in partitions other than the original ones. - Now, if you are installing a new disk or the partition numbers were changed, you need to reinstall grub. - As your software is already in place, you may chroot to use it[code] chroot /target grub[code] You will have the grub prompt "grub>". you will enter Code:
root (hd0,2) |
though a bit complicated for me, i think i understand, is that method equivalent to zipping the whole driver letter c:\ into a single file than export to another partition??? or am i wrong...
do you mean i CAN backup my partition i am working on.... this is marvelous..Ghost cannot do that.... i have another question concerning your method, how can i split the compressed tgz file in order to put it on CDr(s) (dont have DVDr cuz i cant afford) sorry for my bad english..and thanks for your reply |
Man, you don't know the problems I have with my English! The spell check is my friend. My language is Portuguese, the same spoken in Macao. You have a utility which splits files of any size into several files of a specified size. After split it, all you need is to write it in any removable media. To reassembly it again, all you need is to cat "backup-file-name-base"* > backup-file-name.
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