[H-GEN] Ghost for Linux or *nix for that matter

[Robert Stanford]

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On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 15:43, Jay wrote:

> The idea of course is to set up one machine as required and "ghost" it over to 
> the other machines and keep that image for emergency reloads.
> 
> Is anyone aware of anything that can do the job under Linux, or does it have 
> to be Ghost from Symantec?

Heres a method
Boot to single user mode with both disks in the machine
partition and make your filesystems on the new disk, mount them
copy each filesystem to its ghosted location with
find . -xdev | cpio -pm /new/volume/mount/point
then do the lilo/grub thing on the new disk and your away

-- 
Robert Stanford <rob at rotapile.com>


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