[Cialug] Drive Imaging

[Mark Hesseltine]

On 9/19/05, Bailey, Jonathan C <bailj0 at bp.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for decent drive imaging software that runs under Linux. 
> Here's my wishlist: 
> 
> * Images Win9x/NT, OS/2, and anything else that you throw at it 
> * Works off a bootable CD 
> * Saves image files to a SAMBA share or via FTP 
> * Can restore images to a different drive size (like Ghost) 
> 
> I've used ghost before, but apparently it has some issues with OS/2. dd 
> worked fine for the OS/2 system I had to image, but I'm thinking there has 
> to be a way for dd to restore to a drive of a different size without borking 
> the OS.
> 
> 
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> 
> Jonathan C Bailey 
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> 
> While not an all-in-one solution, you could use the combo of Partimage (
http://www.partimage.org) along with Parted (
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html) to resize the partition once 
it's restored.

I believe both of these tools are available on the latest Knoppix CD.


-- 
Mark Hesseltine
mailto:markhesseltine at gmail.com
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