I have been experimenting with linux for a couple of weeks. I did a HD install of DSL and found it very nice to use.
At the moment I am using Fedora 4 with ext3 file systems.
I am only a linux newbie, but have a long history with Windows and DOS.
Ghosting my HDD in linux is something that has me bamboozled. I use Norton Ghost with Windows, but it won't work with ext3 linux file systems.
I noticed that using cfdisk as root with the DSL live CD shows me my HDD partitions. I was wondering if there is a way to burn these partitions (or the whole drive) to CD-R using the live CD?
I realize this is probably a bit rude to ask this question in the DSL forum, but forgive me - I am an old man
Sincerely,
GrahamThis is the place to ask questions!
To create a bzip-compressed image of your first hdd (you will need space to store the image, such as a second hdd. Change the device name according to your needs), do this.
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bzip2 -1c < /dev/hda > myhdd.img.bz2
And to restore the image...
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bzip2 -dc < myhdd.img.bz2 > /dev/hda
-J.P.I've not restored an image using JP's commands but I have created images. It works well. If the HD is very big, it will take awhile. It also does a good job of compressing the image.
ChrisbookmarkFYI,
If you really want to, you CAN ghost an EXT3 image with Norton. Just do a RAW image. This should work regardless of filesystem choice but that backup files are larger in size.Next Page...
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