Ghosting with Linux

[Dustin Decker]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Jason Clinton wrote:

> 
> Our network administrator has been trying to Ghost our Windows 2k box for a week to no avail.
> I'm getting impatient and would like to move on with our lives. I am thinking that something
> like this from a Linux on CD distro should do the trick:
> 
>  # dd bs=1024 if=/dev/hda1 > ssh -2C -l [user] [ip of a linux box
> with 10GB free] "tar -cj /var/server-backup.tar.bz2"

What version of Ghost are you using?  I've found that when working with 
NTFS it's a good idea to add the "-NTIL" flag to the command.  This 
ignores some of the logging on NTFS, which can often cause it to bomb.

Dustin

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