On 31 Mar 2005 at 22:28, RL wrote:
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Subject: Re: Ghost 2003 and FC 3
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> On Mar 31, 2005 10:21 PM, Michael D. Setzer II <mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 31 Mar 2005 at 21:44, RL wrote:
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> > > I just got a DVD writer for my FC 3 machine so I could ghost the
> > > entire drive. I have Norton Ghost 2003. I remember having no
> > > problems ghosting other Linux distros. When I try to ghost this time,
> > > however, it errors at the start with a read sector failure. Is this a
> > > known issue? Ghost 2003 should work with ext3 filesystems just fine.
> > > Are there any other good ghosting progs? I have used "g4u" with
> > > FreeBSD and it is real nice; however, I'd rather have something to
> > > backup an entire hard-drive right on to a DVD.
> > >
> > > --
> >
> > This is a know problem with Norton Ghost. It gets an error with the
> > FC3 partitions. It does work if you have it do the sector mode image,
> > but then it is copying all sectors of the disk, and is much slower and
> > creates a larger file.
> >
> > Both G4U and G4L have no problem with the imaging of the
> > systems, but neither currently allows for DVD imaging.
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> What's different with the FC3 partitions than other Linux distros that
> use ext3? With g4u, you can actually put it on a DVD/CD. With Fbsd
> when I was playing with it, I would set up a small FTP server on my XP
> machine and the large files would end up there. I would then just
> copy it to a CD/DVD. If it was bigger than a DVD, I would use a
> program to split it.
>
> --
>From my memory, I don't think the problem was exactly with the
ext3 partition, but the error occurs with the ext boot partition. When
coping the individual partitionas on my systems, I could copy the 98,
XP, and Linux ext3 partitions with no problem, but trying to copy the
whole drive would fail at the boot partition, and trying to image the
boot partition by itself would also fail. It worked fine with FC1 and
FC2, but it seems there is something in the partition that confuses
Norton.
I use G4L, and it currently creates a 14+GB file using lzop
compression in about 1 hour using a system with 98 (hda1), XP
(hda5), boot (hda6), and linux (hda7) from an 80GB drive. The
restore takes about 50 minutes for a single machines, but I can also
restore a full lab of 20 machines at the same time using udpcast
options in under 1 hour.
I've had the ability to modify G4L that I don't have for either G4U or
Ghost, so I've moved to using it. I wouldn't see a problem with
spliting the file created by G4L, how to then directly restore that file
would be an issue. This ability of Norton Ghost, is a big plus, and
the ability to restore indivual files, and finally to resize partitions.
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