[Gllug] Ghosting / Duplicating Linux Partitions

[mimo]

John Hearns wrote:

>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
>
>
>
>  
>
Try qtparted booting from knoppix.

mimo



-- 
Please note that this account is being filtered using anti UCE systems. If you send email to this account make sure that it could not be mistaken as UCE.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/gllug/attachments/20050104/44d7dccc/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug