My fave is http://rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/g4u/
Its easy, and if you have a fast network and a good FTP server, it doesnt take to long. Also it will work from Boot floppy and CDROM On Tue, 02 Sep 2003 14:55:12 -0400 Michael Gargiullo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 14:45, john lawler wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking into rolling out a few RH9 machine and need to be able to > > make rock-solid disk images of them in a flexible manner such that I > > can burn the results out to multiple CDs or store them on harddrives. > > I would like this to work how Norton Ghost does for Windows machines, > > in that the application would have to recognize the files systems (so > > that I wouldn't get a 10GB image for a 10GB drive that only has 1.5GB > > used, e.g.) and allow me to complete the whole process w/ minimal > > messing around. > > > > I'm currently looking at <a href=www.partimage.org>partimage</a> as a > > solution, but I'm finding it rather cumbersome to install, especially > > since I'd like to make these backup images over the network and the > > only solution they provide is to install this partimaged server, which > > I'd rather not do, b/c I see it as an unecessary complication. > > > > I've also examined the <a > > href=www.systemrescuecd.org>systemrescuecd</a> as a solution for > > booting the machines up w/ a pretty functional version of Linux in a > > ramdisk, so I'd like to continue w/ that approach. > > > > So, after all the above description, what do you all use to handle > > your image backup procedures (especially when you do not have adequate > > harddrive space on the machine to be backed up)? > > > > Thanks, > > > > John Lawler > > I rsync my entire filesystem to another machine. This is also how I do > backups on some machines. I can build identical machines all day long > if I want to. > > Just don't rsync the /proc or /mnt directories. > > Buy a 200 Gig IDE hard drive, they're $200 (ish). I have a pair of them > in drive caddies that get swapped out once a week on the machine that > everything gets backed up to. Right now 22 machines get Rsync'd to it. > > If a machine crashes, or we need a duplicate machine, it takes about 20 > minutes, only about 5 of which is hands on. > > Now across a LAN time isn't that big an issue, across a WAN... well how > big is your pipe? > > > -- > Michael Gargiullo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Warp Drive Networks > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Alan Harding alanh (at) flashmail (dot) com "TINSTAAFL" -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
