g4u

[Vu Pham]

On 01/21/2010 01:09 PM, Stuart Biggerstaff wrote:
> 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/

Thanks, Stuart. I will try it this weekend.

Vu
>
>
> 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
>