partimage...

[bruce]

hi.

i'm looking at doing a complete copy/restore of a drive. i want to copy the
contents of a drive (or as much as possible) to a drive on another machine
in the network.

the 2nd machine on the 2nd network will be larger than the 1st drive. i want
to then reformat/clean the 1st drive, and then copy the information from the
2nd drive back to the 1st machine.

i'm looking at using partimage and wanted to know if anyone has any real
experience using partimage.

any thoughts/pointers would be helpful. i can't screw this up!!!

[Robert Nichols]

bruce wrote:
> hi.
>
> i'm looking at doing a complete copy/restore of a drive. i want to copy the
> contents of a drive (or as much as possible) to a drive on another machine
> in the network.
>
> the 2nd machine on the 2nd network will be larger than the 1st drive. i want
> to then reformat/clean the 1st drive, and then copy the information from the
> 2nd drive back to the 1st machine.
>
> i'm looking at using partimage and wanted to know if anyone has any real
> experience using partimage.
>
> any thoughts/pointers would be helpful. i can't screw this up!!!

I've been using partimage to save and restore NTFS partitions.  I've
never tried it with stuff like ext3 extended attributes and the like.
The interface is clunky, but it works.

The only problem I ran into was that partimage didn't want to restore
from a gzip-ed image file larger than 2GB. (I could manually gunzip
the file and restore from that just fine.)  As long as I let it use
its default of breaking up the saved image into 2GB chunks it worked
just fine.  That was with version 0.6.5_beta2.  Perhaps that's been
fixed in the latest version.

Since you mentioned reformatting and then restoring, I'm not sure
you understand just what partimage does.  When you restore a
partition, partimage will completely overwrite any filesystem
formatting, replacing it with what was saved.  Everything except
the contents of the free space gets saved and restored.

[bruce]

hi bob...

thanks for the reply. with regards to partimage. what does it do when you go
from a small disk, to a larger disk, back to the smaller disk.

i think/hope (don't really know) that the initial drive has sector issues,
but that it might still be useable... actually, i'd be happy, if i could
essentially move everything from the initial drive to a larger drive, and
then to keep going... the initial drive could become a test/throw-away
drive...

thanks

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 8:41 PM
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Subject: Re: partimage...

bruce wrote:
> hi.
>
> i'm looking at doing a complete copy/restore of a drive. i want to copy

the
> contents of a drive (or as much as possible) to a drive on another machine
> in the network.
>
> the 2nd machine on the 2nd network will be larger than the 1st drive. i

want
> to then reformat/clean the 1st drive, and then copy the information from

the
> 2nd drive back to the 1st machine.
>
> i'm looking at using partimage and wanted to know if anyone has any real
> experience using partimage.
>
> any thoughts/pointers would be helpful. i can't screw this up!!!

I've been using partimage to save and restore NTFS partitions.  I've
never tried it with stuff like ext3 extended attributes and the like.
The interface is clunky, but it works.

The only problem I ran into was that partimage didn't want to restore
from a gzip-ed image file larger than 2GB. (I could manually gunzip
the file and restore from that just fine.)  As long as I let it use
its default of breaking up the saved image into 2GB chunks it worked
just fine.  That was with version 0.6.5_beta2.  Perhaps that's been
fixed in the latest version.

Since you mentioned reformatting and then restoring, I'm not sure
you understand just what partimage does.  When you restore a
partition, partimage will completely overwrite any filesystem
formatting, replacing it with what was saved.  Everything except
the contents of the free space gets saved and restored.

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[Vivek J. Patankar]

bruce wrote:
> i'm looking at doing a complete copy/restore of a drive. i want to copy the
> contents of a drive (or as much as possible) to a drive on another machine
> in the network.
> the 2nd machine on the 2nd network will be larger than the 1st drive. i want
> to then reformat/clean the 1st drive, and then copy the information from the
> 2nd drive back to the 1st machine.
> i'm looking at using partimage and wanted to know if anyone has any real
> experience using partimage.
> any thoughts/pointers would be helpful. i can't screw this up!!!

I am planning to do something similar. I wanted for try FC6 only my 
laptop, but didn't want to lose my current FC5 setup which is *almost* 
perfect.
I have four partitions, root(hda2), boot(hda1), home(hda5) and 
data(hda6). Nothing would be changing in data, but I need to backup 
root, boot and home. I am thinking of booting with a knoppix CD and use 
DD to create images of hda1, hda2 and hda5. So if my laptop doesn't like 
FC6, I can write the images back on the partitions.
Any reasons why this won't work?

[Paul Johnson]

On 11/6/06, Vivek J. Patankar  wrote:
> bruce wrote:
> > i'm looking at doing a complete copy/restore of a drive. i want to copy the
> > contents of a drive (or as much as possible) to a drive on another machine
> > in the network.

Get g4u, "Ghost 4 Unix". Works super awesome to exactly copy disks or
partitions. i've used it many times and it is always letter perfect.
It has a very good manual with it--you can actually learn by reaing
it.  http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

[Mick M.]

--- Paul Johnson  wrote:
> On 11/6/06, Vivek J. Patankar  wrote:
> > bruce wrote:
> > > i'm looking at doing a complete copy/restore of a drive. i want
>
> to copy the
> > > contents of a drive (or as much as possible) to a drive on
>
> another machine
> > > in the network.

Hi;
 I have 3 hard drives in my machine.
The latest is a 160GB.
I partitioned it into 3 primaries, 79/2/79G
The 2G is swap, the others ext3.
I loaded FC6 onto the first, set it up and "yum upgraded" it.
This gave me multimedia via livna and my user stuff.
I also removed all the disk labels and fixed /etc/fstab.

Then I booted to the FC5 and mounted FC6 under ~/tmp and the blank
under ~/tmp1.
I used konqueror under KDE to copy the contents of tmp to tmp1.
Fixed up /boot/grub on tmp and /etc/fstab on tmp and tmp1.

Booted up FC6 on tmp1, changed the yum repos to devel and "yum upgrade"
to rawhide.
Now I have a working FC6 and Rawhide on the same drive.
Very fast and worked fine.

Mick

Death before Decaf!!!

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