g4u

[Stuart Biggerstaff]

I've tried Clonezilla a couple of times as an alternative to commercial
(Ghost, Acronis) software.  It's a live CD, and lets you save the
created image to a mounted drive.
http://clonezilla.org/


Stuart Biggerstaff
Kansas City, Missouri 64110-2498

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org
[mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of C M Reinehr
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 12:38 PM
To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org
Subject: Re: g4u

On Thu 21 January 2010 10:54:49 am Vu Pham wrote:
> On 01/21/2010 09:37 AM, C M Reinehr wrote:
> > On Thu 21 January 2010 08:26:06 am Vu Pham wrote:
> >> I am trying to copy images of several notebooks ( Windows and Linux
) as
> >> their backups. g4u allows me to transfer the images to a remote ftp
> >> server but I need to copy these images to a local drive ( usb
external
> >> hard drive ). If I understand correctly, g4u does not have this
option:
> >> it will not copy images to local disks as files.
> >>
> >> Am I wrong ? If not, any alternative to g4u to allow me to clone
hard
> >> drives onto local devices ?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Vu
> >
> > At a glance, it looks like the copydisk function will do that:
> >
> > "4.4 Copying a disk locally
> > 	If you just want to copy one local disk to another one with no
network&
> > server involved, the "copydisk" command is what you want. E.g. to
copy
> > the first IDE disk to the second IDE disk, use "copydisk wd0 wd1",
to do
> > the same for SCSI disks run "copydisk sd0 sd1".  Beware! All data on
the
> > target disk will be erased!
> > 	A list of disks as found during system startup can be found
using the
> > "disks" command."
>
> Hi C M,
>
> My post is not clear. I want to store all images as *files* into one
> place, like notebook1.img, notebook2.img into some USB drive, and then
> will use them to restore later. the function copydisk will mirror the
> first disk to the 2nd one, IIRC. I do not have 100  physical disks for
> 100 notebooks :)
>
> I can use dd with dd if=/dev/hda of=/mnt/usb_drive/notebookN.img, but
> then I cannot resize the disk on the fly during a restore.
>
> The only problem with g4u/ftp is that it takes too long to transfer.
>
> Thanks,
> Vu

Vu,

My bad. That's what comes of giving something a quick glance.

As Andrew already has suggested you might consider dd. There is
partimage and, 
another utility that is mentioned on the partimage home page called 
FSarchiver.

cmr

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