From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brett Mueller Subject: Re: Hard Drive Ghosting Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:25:00 -0800 Message-ID: <44079AEC.2070905@wa7v.com> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20060302182940.025531c0@mail.sasktel.net> <9923fd660603021700j12b44602xc4e329d71ed7927a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <9923fd660603021700j12b44602xc4e329d71ed7927a@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org Cc: appld@sasktel.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 3/2/2006 17:00, Douglas Cole wrote: > On 3/2/06, Doug wrote: >>Can a Linux hard drive be ghosted?? If so, which ghost programme must >>be used and what environment must it be run? > > Norton Ghost will copy a Linux hard drive (ext2 filesystems anyway)... - From Symantec site on Ghost: "Sector-based and file-based disk imaging creates file images of any FAT, NTFS, EXT2, and EXT3 file system" Looks like it must be run from Windows. > If the source and destination drives are the same architecture/size > then just use 'dd' ;^} As Curt and Doug both mention, "dd" is perfect for doing sector-level copying under native Linux. "cp -a" and/or "rsync -a" (if you are updating an archive) are good tools for copying at the filesystem level... 73, Brett -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) iD8DBQFEB5rs+/Ps1x4JxWYRAhEiAJwMt61e22iOplfHFqY+5hAV1dKDyQCggT9i nyTdfZAhu6LrW0/Owd/aEu8= =A9JF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----