[ale] Ghost for Linux

[Brian MacLeod]

James,

Sounds like you are looking for something similar to radmind:
http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/

I've wanted to try this out on our Mac carts and even some testing linux
boxes just to see how well it would work.  I just haven't had the time
to tinker with it, having to deal with MS crap day in and day out.

bnm

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On 
> Behalf Of James P. Kinney III
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 5:46 PM
> To: cfowler at outpostsentinel.com; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Ghost for Linux
> 
> The absolute BEST tool I've ever seen for restoring systems 
> to pristine state was only for the Mac. It was called 
> Assimilator. I kept 25+ Macs with individual personalities 
> and network settings identical otherwise.
> The app would run on a reboot and delete extra files and add 
> missing files and keep the network setup as per the central database. 
> 
> I have been tinkering (on the backburner) with building a 
> similar system using rsync for Linux/Window$. The goal is/was 
> to use it for a regular backup process for an office full of 
> similarly configured machines. Each machine would have a 
> hardlink to the master copy file unless the local copy had 
> changed. Thus the "image" would be a pile of hardlinks and 
> pile of differences files. This would chop loads off the 
> storage space needed for full backups of each machine. A 
> restore would be a boot floppy that calls a reversed rsync 
> from the main server.
> 
> It is (still) a pipe dream...not even vaporware...more like 
> fantasyware...
> 
> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 15:50, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > dd if=/dev/<disk> of=/mnt/usb/disk.img
> > 
> > Want compression?
> > 
> > dd if=/dev/<disk> | bzip2 -c9 | dd of=/mnt/usb/disk.img
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 15:57, Tom & JaVonn wrote:
> > > 	
> > > Anyone used g4l ?
> > > 
> > > Looking for a cheap or free way for clients to make 
> images of their hard drive to external USB drives, even if 
> they're NTFS format.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Tom
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