[Gllug] Ghosting / Duplicating Linux Partitions

[John Hearns]

On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 15:09 +0000, David Abbishaw wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a need to ghost (read that as a generic term please) some linux
> disk partitions, As far as Im aware Symantec Ghost and Power Quest support
> EXT2 & EXT3 but not LVM and the partitions I need to ghost are LVM.
> 
> I know there is an open source project for cloning Linux Disks but cant
> find it or rememeber its name, but failing that does anyone know if theres
> anyway to do this.

I'm looking at tools for making disk images at the moment,
for cluster management.
rsync of course comes to mind :-)

I also found g4u
http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

Using g4u involves booting from a NetBSD based floppy or CD.
It does a bitwise copy and compresses on the server. Should handle LVM,
YMMV

And there is Partition Image
http://www.partimage.org/
Documention at
http://www.digitalissues.co.uk/html/os/misc/partimage.html



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