Imaging for Linux (Like Norton Ghost)

[ewdi]

As some of you might know, Norton Ghost has dropped Linux support, not to worry, i found a great open source application that does the same thing

It is call Mondo Rescue, it even have more options than norton ghost

URL : http://www.mondorescue.org/

[adam]

Hm.. DVD burning not mentioned there, got to check it out anyway

[S.D.Willie]

its not free though i believe which is a bummer. but i believe its packaged with mandrake.

[WebWind]

ts not free

Mondo is free! It has been published under the GPL (GNU Public License)


ewdi
Thanks

[S.D.Willie]

ok, found a mirror and donwloading the iso image to try. coulda sworn i read some feedback about it being shareware but i guess ill find out soon enough,

[Quella]

Here is the link to DVD stuff, and it also says on the web page that it is FREE (excluding support or technical calls).

http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/ccp14admin/li...dvd_mondo.html

[Mat]

what about dd??

[Quella]

Who uses such an outdated product as 'dd' anymore, when you can have a much cooler named utility to do it for you.

[Myra]

Outdated? 'dd' works perfect!

[Quella]

It was a joke... Sorry if it was not taken as such.

[Mat]

Originally Posted by Quella

It was a joke...

realized that.. but 'twas a bad one

[S.D.Willie]

i can see this is gonna be fun to install. at first, upon running ./setup for mondo i was give this very very small dependency issue:

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Do you want to install the (S)table or the (D)evelopment branch of Mondo? s
Installing stable branch.
I see you are running Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg)
distro=FDR version=3 arch=ia32
Locating and installing packages suitable for Fedora Core v 1.0
.......warning: RPMS/FDR/1.0/slang-1.4.5-18.1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 897da07a
error: can't create transaction lock
...........c2 = 'RPMS/FDR/1.0/mindi-1.02_cvs_20040708-1fdr10.i586.rpm RPMS/FDR/1.0/mondo-2.02_cvs_20040709-1fdr10.i586.rpm'
warning: RPMS/FDR/1.0/dvdrecord-0.1.4-3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 897da07a
error: Failed dependencies:
libstdc++.so.5 is needed by dvd+rw-tools-5.17.4.8.6-2.i386
libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) is needed by dvd+rw-tools-5.17.4.8.6-2.i386
cdrecord is needed by mondo-2.02_cvs_20040709-1fdr10.i586
ncurses = 5.3 is needed by ncurses-devel-5.3-9.i386
slang = 1.4.5 is needed by slang-devel-1.4.5-18.1.i386
cdrecord is needed by (installed) k3b-0.11.14-2.i386
mount >= 2.11l is needed by (installed) initscripts-7.93.2-1.i386
mount is needed by (installed) mkinitrd-4.1.18-2.i386
util-linux >= 2.12a-16 is needed by (installed) hal-0.4.0-10.i386
util-linux >= 2.10s-11 is needed by (installed) initscripts-7.93.2-1.i386
util-linux is needed by (installed) prelink-0.3.2-11.i386
util-linux is needed by (installed) usermode-1.74-1.i386
util-linux >= 2.11b is needed by (installed) portmap-4.0-63.i386
/bin/dmesg is needed by (installed) redhat-lsb-1.3-4.i386
/bin/kill is needed by (installed) redhat-lsb-1.3-4.i386
/bin/more is needed by (installed) redhat-lsb-1.3-4.i386
/bin/mount is needed by (installed) redhat-lsb-1.3-4.i386
/bin/umount is needed by (installed) redhat-lsb-1.3-4.i386
/sbin/nologin is needed by (installed) openssh-3.9p1-7.i386
/sbin/nologin is needed by (installed) nfs-utils-1.0.6-39.i386
/sbin/nologin is needed by (installed) gdm-2.6.0.5-6.i386
/usr/bin/chfn is needed by (installed) redhat-lsb-1.3-4.i386
/usr/bin/chsh is needed by (installed) redhat-lsb-1.3-4.i386
/usr/bin/col is needed by (installed) redhat-lsb-1.3-4.i386
/usr/bin/ipcrm is needed by (installed) redhat-lsb-1.3-4.i386
/usr/bin/ipcs is needed by (installed) redhat-lsb-1.3-4.i386
/usr/bin/mcookie is needed by (installed) vnc-server-4.0-8.i386
/usr/bin/newgrp is needed by (installed) redhat-lsb-1.3-4.i386
/usr/bin/renice is needed by (installed) redhat-lsb-1.3-4.i386
Some packages failed to be installed.

Press ENTER to abort.
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hmmm, maybe i should try installing the "development branch"?
other than that ill be installing a few dependencies.

edit: ok, duh i see its looking at fedora core 1 files. ha.

[kosmosik]

try partimage... it is a GUI to dd and several other utilities (just to glue copying>compressing>sending over net) to backup entire partition... it comes with a client and a server. so you can have a partition server and script everything to do its job... in my school it is deployed on 600 machines. you just hit "rescue" on grub screen and partimage copies over a fresh partition image to the machine... it is kind of cool you can always use dd but partimage is much more - it ofers you few essential features (as I mentioned - copying/restoring fs over net) and can be easly scripted (dd is little more difficult to script as you need to pass fs sizes and so on - partimage does it for you).

[imdeemvp]

Originally Posted by ewdi

As some of you might know, Norton Ghost has dropped Linux support, not to worry, i found a great open source application that does the same thing

It is call Mondo Rescue, it even have more options than norton ghost

URL : http://www.mondorescue.org/

Will this clone a disk that contains linux and windows (dual boot) safely?

[ewdi]

i only tried with linux, but i'm sure it will work too with dual