Ghosting with Linux

[Brig C. McCoy]

Actually the MONDO RESCUE project creates wonderful bootable backups. I've 
used it with a couple different machines and it worked great. Doesn't, 
however, have DVD capabilities yet... I've only used the CD-ROM-based pieces.

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...brig

At 03:09 PM 8/20/2003, Garrett Goebel wrote:

>Brian Kelsay wrote:
> > Jason Clinton wrote:
> > > Jason Clinton wrote:
> > >
> > > Here is what I did. Thanks for listening to me talk to
> > > myself. :)
> > >
> > > # dd bs=900K if=/dev/hda1 | bzip2 --best | ssh -2 -l root
> > > 134.193.43.211 "dd of=/var/server-backup.bz2"
> > >
> > > To restore the backup:
> > >
> > > # ssh -2 -l root 134.193.43.211 "bunzip2 /var/server-backup.bz2" |
> > >  dd bs=900K of=/dev/hda1
> > >
> > > I'll let everyone know how the 10 GB NTFS partition with 7
> > > GB of data on it compresses down to and how long it took to
> > > make a backup accross a 100 Mbit connection.
> > >
> > So now are you going to script this to a file like "backup_hda1_now"?
> > How about putting the restore script on in a file on a bootable Linux
> > floppy or CD?  There is your restore solution.
>
>I was just mentioning to a co-worker that a bootable backup cd|dvd which 
>burns bootable restore media would be a great project. And for those 
>willing to go that route a product waiting to happen.
>
>There are however lots of issues with hardware detection, idiot-proof user 
>interface, and media resizing which could be really tedious. Can anyone 
>recommend a good single-image livecd linux distribution?
>
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