howtoforge.com — This tutorial shows how you can back up and restore hard drives and partitions with Ghost4Linux. Ghost4Linux is a Linux Live-CD that you insert into your computer; it contains hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tools similar to Norton Ghost.
Jan 9, 2007 View in Crawl 4
nekoJan 9, 2007
If it's on your trusted local network, you don't even have to run it through ssh, netcat does just fine.
colinmJan 9, 2007
I use gzip instead of bzip2 as it's much faster (check with "top" to see if the compression CPU usage is the bottleneck - it is with my PC even if I use gzip). Also if you use "conv=sync,noerror" dd still outputs the correct number of bytes if it can't read the source drive (if you didn't have this, later bytes would be offset in the wrong place making them useless). bs=1k minimises the amount of missed data if there are problems reading the drive.dd if=/dev/hda1 bs=1k conv=sync,noerror | gzip >/mnt/some_other_drive/hda1_image.img.gz
theosterJan 10, 2007
i just use a couple of cheap platters, kind of hooked together in some kind of ... "duplicate-y" way...... *cough* RAID *cough*
Closed AccountJan 10, 2007
@ mblitchAcronis True Image. I've used it for quite sometime, it works great.
rethcirJan 10, 2007
Used to use this in the IT industry all the time to image new user PC's.. great tool! Sometimes it had a little problem with dell network drivers but you could generally futz with it a little and it would work.
technolofreeJul 15, 2009
Great article. Here is a nice free and portable solution:<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/mods/technolofree_The_Ultimate_Portable_Backup_Imaging_Solution">http://digg.com/mods/technolofree_The_Ultimate_Por ...</a>