System backup utillity

[Michael D. Setzer II]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On 6 Sep 2005 at 20:55, Igor Guarisma wrote:

Date sent:      	Tue, 6 Sep 2005 20:55:39 -0500 (CDT)
From:           	Igor Guarisma <iguarism at yahoo.com>
To:             	fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject:        	System backup utillity
Send reply to:  	For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
	<mailto:fedora-list-request at redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe>
	<mailto:fedora-list-request at redhat.com?subject=subscribe>

> Hi!
> 
> Is there any software like Window's Norton Ghost for
> Linux?? or a way to make a backup image of a system
> disk to be restore later on another machine or the
> same machine in case of failure??

You should look at G4L or G4U. 

G4L is Ghost for Linux that uses Linux boot CD and script with 
dialog menu system that uses dd plus gzip or lzop or bzip and ncftp 
to create images on an ftp server.

G4U does the same, but use netbsd and uses dd plus gzip and ftp, 
but is just a command line program, but can boot from diskettes. 

With both programs, you should clear out unused sectors before 
doing the image, since dd copies all sectors used or unused. 
Sectors filled with nulls, will compress much better. G4L includes 
programs to help blank out these sectors. 

http://freshmeat.net/projects/g4l/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l

http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

Suggest you read the sites.


> 
> Thanx in advanced...
> 
> -----
> 
> Lic. Igor Guarisma
> Administrador de Sistemas y Redes de Computadores
> Caracas - Venezuela
> 
> __________________________________________________
> Correo Yahoo!
> Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! 
> Regístrate ya - http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com/ 
> 
> -- 
> fedora-list mailing list
> fedora-list at redhat.com
> To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
> 


+----------------------------------------------------------+
  Michael D. Setzer II -  Computer Science Instructor      
  Guam Community College  Computer Center                  
  mailto:mikes at kuentos.guam.net                            
  mailto:msetzerii at gmail.com
  http://www.guam.net/home/mikes
  Guam - Where America's Day Begins                        
+----------------------------------------------------------+

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu
Number of Seti Units Returned:  17,675
Processing time:  31 years, 281 days, 15 hours, 25 minutes
(Total Hours: 278,319)


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: PGP 6.5.8 -- QDPGP 2.61c
Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html

iQA/AwUBQx3BbizGQcr/2AKZEQJShQCdGRZt6rCSp1PtMC7v274eG1li6HoAoKKI
cCE3wNW1boi2FXqDaqRHstum
=KGPi
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----