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November 4, 1999 at 1:53 am #2080169
Hard Disk Image software for Linux
Lockedby glgreen · about 24 years, 5 months ago
I am looking for a program in Linux that allows me to image a hard disk (Win95), back it up to my Linux server and when a new PC is introduced to the network with a C:\ or a hard drive crashes, I can just pop in a boot disk and connect to the Linux box.Any suggestions for or against my method would be appreciated.
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November 4, 1999 at 3:50 am #3902449
Hard Disk Image software for Linux
by rindi1 · about 24 years, 5 months ago
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Look for driveimage from powerquest (now belongs to symantec). They have, as far as i know, a new version out, and it supports a lot of filesystem types. I’m not sure if it runs directly under linux, but i don’t think thats necessary. I suggest copying the image to CD Roms where the program resides as well, preferably a bootable cd rom, then you’ve got everything where you need it.
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September 20, 2000 at 7:01 pm #3793757
Hard Disk Image software for Linux
by glgreen · about 23 years, 6 months ago
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November 12, 1999 at 9:37 am #3902251
Hard Disk Image software for Linux
by jlrice · about 24 years, 4 months ago
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Linux is shuck full of back up utillities, but if you want an exact image, then the basic command is dd
like dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/backup/Joe
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September 20, 2000 at 7:01 pm #3793758
Hard Disk Image software for Linux
by glgreen · about 23 years, 6 months ago
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November 15, 1999 at 8:11 am #3902200
Hard Disk Image software for Linux
by cbingham · about 24 years, 4 months ago
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The easist way to do this is with something like Norton Ghost http://www.ghost.com. What you want to do is install samba on your linux system you can get it off of you linux cd or from http://www.samba.org. The Samba program is extremely easy to configure and lets you share a drive that a dos, win9x or, winNt client can access just like it was another windows based computer share. All you have to do then is create a network boot disk for your new pc or the pc you wish to back up, the Ghost web site has greattips on this or you can use the Client Administrator on NT Server if you have access to one. Once you boot up your machine and can connect to the linux box you simply run ghost from floppy or the linux share and clone away. Note Ghost software requires a license samba is free.
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September 20, 2000 at 7:01 pm #3793759
Hard Disk Image software for Linux
by glgreen · about 23 years, 6 months ago
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December 2, 1999 at 12:29 am #3901801
Hard Disk Image software for Linux
by greg.dominguez · about 24 years, 4 months ago
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Here is another alternative. Restoring an image over your network could slow it down. Sydex has a program called Safeback which will run from a DOS boot floppy. Safeback has several options, you can make a bit for bit image of the drive and the usethe restore function. The second option with Safeback is to use the copy mode and the data is copied directly to the new drive. Safeback is used by law enforcement and corporate security and has an excellent track record. The software is not cheap, but depending on the volume of drives you would need to image/restore it may very well be woth the cost. Greg
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September 20, 2000 at 7:01 pm #3793760
Hard Disk Image software for Linux
by glgreen · about 23 years, 6 months ago
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December 2, 1999 at 3:45 pm #3903545
Hard Disk Image software for Linux
by rmccain · about 24 years, 4 months ago
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Yeah Raw write is on most Linux distro’s
I think but I have’nt tride zip n gzip
in conjunction W Raw write . Check and
see what format The Linux boot floppy
images are stored in . This is the least of
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September 20, 2000 at 7:01 pm #3793761
Hard Disk Image software for Linux
by glgreen · about 23 years, 6 months ago
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April 11, 2000 at 4:05 pm #3896596
Hard Disk Image software for Linux
by glenn · about 23 years, 11 months ago
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dd (direct disk I think) is the equivalent of any imaging software out there for hard drives.
dd if=/dev/hdxx of/file/path/filename.extension should do the trick where hdxx is actually the device name (hda = primary master, hdb = primary slave etc. hda = primary master, partition 1)
so if you want to do an image of the primary master’s first paritition and name the resulting file hda1.backup, it would be:
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=hda1.backupmind you that the file will be exactly the same size as the used space on that drive. I recommend gzip or bzipping the resulting file to save space.
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September 20, 2000 at 7:01 pm #3793762
Hard Disk Image software for Linux
by glgreen · about 23 years, 6 months ago
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May 10, 2000 at 5:48 am #3898850
Hard Disk Image software for Linux
by m.mayberry · about 23 years, 10 months ago
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Any of the answers above will give you an image of a hard drive (or at least a good copy). To keep things simple, though, I would recommend one of the commercial products like Powerquest’s Drive Image or Norton Ghost. I use Ghost quite a bit, but haven’t created an image for a Linux box. Ghost 6.0 ($63 US) has added support for the ext2 filesystem (often called Linux Native), but doesn’t mention the Linux Swap filesystem. Powerquest lists support for both the ext2 and Linux Swap filesystems with Drive Image 3.0 ($69 US).
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September 20, 2000 at 7:01 pm #3793763
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September 20, 2000 at 7:01 pm #3793756
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