Topic: Ghost 2003

[compdoc]

Dont know what Im doing wrong, but when cloning SME 6.0 final with Norton Ghost 2003 (the dos version), the new drive hangs at LIL-

Im ghosting to a file, then restoring the file to another drive. Tried with and without compression.

The new drive is a little larger, and ghost expands partition 2 and 3 a bit to fill the drive. But even if I use the same size partitions, the problem occurs.

Wont boot from the floppy the install created, and cant boot from the CD and try to do an upgrade to fix it.

Even tried "ghost -nolilo" which prevents it from pacthing lilo.

The copy Im trying to make is of a fairly virgin install of SME 6 - just has a few i-bays and lm_sensors.

Any hints?

[wykyd]

I have tried this numerous times with different Linux distro's and always got that message.

Maybe a trip to the official site would help you. I tried about a year ago but could not find any solution.

If you do find one please post it

[compdoc]

I just got back from Nortons site, and it seems its a bug in Ghost 2003 in how it handles LILO. An upgdate fixes it, tho I havent tried it yet.

They suggest you can make it work without the update if you boot from a floppy with LILO on it, and just type LILO to update the boot record. I'll try that tomorrow...

Too bad the SME diskette doesnt seem to contain LILO, or at least doesnt give the option to access it.

Just got the new version of SME from contribs.org, so Im playing with that now...

[wykyd]

oh well I might give it a go agian.

Just for those coming acroos this post here is the official Linux compatibility list.

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/docid/1999021909463125?Open&src=&docid=2000033111503625&nsf=ghost.nsf&view=docid&dtype=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl=

[Reinhold]

Hi guys

Don't get me wrong but unless I misunderstand your intentions I tend to believe you are wasting some time and money here .-)
Remember the OS was Linux ?
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There's probably lots of other ways but what I would do on a Linux system is:

mount newdrive as WhAtEvEr, then:
tar cSpf - / | ( cd newdrivemountpoint ; tar xvSpf - )

...even does a bit of 'cleaning' for U .-)
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At least for same drive geomety I'd prefer to use dd,
since it's a fast direct "device dump" of the data.

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb

/dev/hda is the drive to be backed up (the input file)
and /dev/hdb is the drive to get the copy (the output file)

Enjoy

[haynest]

Give mondoarchive a try.

I have used it to backup and restore an E-smith installation.

It works on 6.0, and there is a howto.

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/thaynes/E-Smith/mondoarchive/install.htm

[raem]

I searched around and found an answer in the forums. See this HOWTO I put together.

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/rmitchell/smeserver/howto/Cloning%20drive%20with%20Ghost%20lilo.conf%20fix%20HOWTO%20for%20sme%20server.htm

[ryan]

Google g4u (ghost for unix)...I have used this to image 100s of windows systems and several linux systems.  When ntfs5 came out in XP or 2ksp3 (i think), our copy of Ghost would not work.  We could not justify the cost of upgrading to the latest enterprise ghost, so g4u has been used.  It will take some time to get use to it, it does not have the features of ghost, but it will image any OS and it is FREE.

I will say that the DOS boot disk and networking is was a miserable experience.  g4u is basic..it needs a dhcp server and an ftp server to image over a network.   With knoppix 3.4 the app qtparted as my ntfs image resizer and g4u, I can pump out a fully configured XP system (not domain member) in about 10 minutes...this includes all critical updates, Office XP, pdf, plugins, xml, java, etc......


Reading up on it can't hurt...  If you try it out, you can use the ftp server that comes with 2k or XP, but will be limited to 2 connections at a time..so instead of MS ftp, download and install warftp and configure it to allow lots of logins for the 'install' user...see g4u faq.


ryan