[Gllug] Partition imaging [Possibly OT]

[Jake Jellinek]

Yep, partition image works for me and does network stuff too, been using it 
"in production" for the past couple of years.

Debian:-

apt-get install partimage
apt-get install partimage-server

:)

BTW, I use a pendrive (you see them on scan.co.uk often) to store a 1.7Gig 
image of our Dolphin server initial setup, and I can restore it via USB and 
a single floppy from the 512K pendrive within 20 minutes.

Try not to ask me how I managed to get that all working though, took a 
couple of days of fiddling with mindi, kernel modules and shell scripts as 
well as partimage but it has the advantage of working on nearly any machine 
whether or not it is networked.

Cheers,

Jake.

--On 18 March 2002 17:03 +0000 Richard Cottrill <richard_c at tpg.com.au> 
wrote:

> I recalled a thingy on Freshmeat and did a search:
> http://www.partimage.org/
>
> Never used it, looks a little on the flaky side, but test it to be sure.
> It may be rock solid for the bits they say are stable. I have no idea
> about network copies; otherwise all the boxes can be ticked.
>
> Richard
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
>> Of Jonathan Dye
>> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 3:44 PM
>> To: gllug at linux.co.uk
>> Subject: [Gllug] Partition imaging [Possibly OT]
>>
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions for (free beer) programs that I
>> can use to
>> take an image of a partition (FAT & ext2) so that it can be restored at a
>> later date?
>>
>> It needs to fit on a CD so some sort of compression or unused block
>> skipping would be good (which I guess means it has to understand the
>> filesystem on the partition).
>>
>> Also, it can't be to another drive in the same computer because the
>> partitions are on laptops so I guess it needs to be able to spool
>> the files
>> to another computer on a network.
>>
>> Not asking much am I!
>>
>> JD
>>
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