Backup Linux with Ghost?? 1

[tomii]

Hi...I want to some how to make a backup of my linux box in the even that I may need to restore it. Is it possible to use Ghost? has anyone done this before? if so can you please provide some directions?, Must appreciated, thanks!!!

 

[lgarner]

You can call Symantec to see if Ghost supports Linux.

I've played around with

http://www.systemimager.org/

and it seems to work fairly well.

 

[QatQat]

I am not sure that ghost would save your GRUB of LILO if in the MBR, but a part from that it should work.

QatQat

Life is what happens when you are making other plans.

 

[tomii]

Thanks for all your reply. By the way, Igarner do you know if systemimager works with Suse 9.3? What I want to do is make a image backup of my Suse machine which contains 3 HD in RAID 5.

 

[wilville]

There are two possibilities.

First, according to the Symmantec web site, Norton Ghost 2003 and Symmantec Ghost 8.x support some versions of Linux, but only ext2 and ext3 filesystems. And then only up to RedHat 9 with no mention of Enterprise or Fedora.

Secondly, there is an open source (I think) version called g4l, which is Ghost for Linux (what else?), that is claimed to support releases into the Fedora range. Not sure about details, but a Google search will tell you more than you ever wanted to know about it.

Hope this helps ...

Wilville (Who has a brother Orbur)

 

[zeland]

I've tried ghosting a 3 disc RAID5 volume some 2~3 years ago. Booting into DOS and then running ghost showed no HDD in the system. I later took out each HDD and ghosted it manually on anohter machine taking proper note of what image belongs to which HDD being in which slot. Restoration of the images was done in the same way. The restoration worked, and the OS booted but the controller kept complaining about dick corruption. I took a cheap shot and removed 1 HDD, took it to another machine and erased it and then put it back into the server for recovery. I repeated this for the other discs as well which solved the disc corruption errors.


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[robbieguy2003]

mkcdrec [URL unfurl="true"]http://mkcdrec.ota.be/[/url] is about the best thing i've found for doing this.

I've used it on Slackware, debian and Fedora. It creates a set of bootable CD's (or it creates the ISO images for you to burn to cds) of your entire system (so all /dev/hda or /dev/sda) partitions.

If you need to get back to the image you pop the cd's in, run the restore and your back to where you we're.

We use it for imaging some of our software which compiles from C++ and can take hours to do - so we imaged it and then run an update once done.

I wish someone would just call me Sir, without adding 'Your making a scene'.

Rob