[ale] Ghost for Linux

[James P. Kinney III]

WooHoo!! New toy to play with!!


On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 09:21, Brian MacLeod wrote:
>  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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