[ale] ghost for linux with LVM support

[Charles Shapiro]

Uh. I can't speak too terribly much to the LVM issue, but I've used
systemimager ( http://www.systemimager.org ) with good results in an
environment which
started out using ghost & then got converted to linux.  One good thing about
this is that you can
script it to do whatever partitioning//resizing// other mess you wish on the
image.

-- CHS


On 2/17/06, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/17/06, Trey Sizemore <trey at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > As the subject says, I'm trying to find an app like ghost for Windows
> > in the linux realm (I'm familiar with g4l) that supports LVM.  The ones
> > I've found so far choke on drives configured with LVM.  Anyone on the
> > list found such an app?
> >
>
> Just "dd if=/dev/hda conv=noerror,sync | gzip > /mnt/target_file"
>
> Unfortunately this captures the freespace as well as the live, but the
> compression can be pretty on the freespace if it was never written to.
>
> Obviously it also does not do any automatic partition resizing etc. on
> restore.
>
> FYI: I also sometimes run the gzip output thru split to get DVD size
> chunks, but I don't have the split args memorized.  If your curious I
> have a script I run to do this and I can look up the full command for
> you.
>
> Greg
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> Greg Freemyer
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