[TriLUG] backup up a laptop disk for replacement

[Andrew Perrin]

Forgive my ignorance, but what's better about ghost than dd?

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On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Ryan Leathers wrote:

> The newest version of Ghost is handling images for me with aplomb no
> matter how complex so long as I use LILO - not GRUB.
> If you want to get an exact duplicate of the original partitions I
> suggest grabbing a copy of ghost.
> 
> Ryan 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rodent of Unusual Size [mailto:Ken.Coar at Golux.Com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 3:50 PM
> To: Greater New Hampshire Linux Users; Triangle Linux Users Group
> Subject: [TriLUG] backup up a laptop disk for replacement
> 
> heh.  my laptop drive is starting to whine and buzz, so
> ibm is sending me a replacement.  that's cool hardwarily,
> but.. what's the best path for backing the current drive
> up and restoring it onto the new one?  rh 7.2, five partitions
> on the drive.  i have my 7.2 cds.  i'm guessing one possibility
> is to come up on the cd, do a dump 0 of each filesystem off
> to another system over the network, replace the unit, fdisk
> it and newfs it to get the partition structure back, and
> then restore 0 the dumps back over the network.  the two parts
> of that i'm unsure about are a) doing stuff over the network
> from the cd boot, and b) writing the boot block on the new
> drive.
> 
> is the above a workable/the best solution?  or is there a
> better one?
> 
> tia..
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