[TriLUG] Computer Getting Slow

[Jason Tower]

g4u rocks.  i use it all the time to back up workstations before making 
any radical changes, that way i can always revert back to the original 
image if something goes wrong.

for those of you who don't know, g4u (ghost for unix) is a freebsd 
floppy that allows you to create and restore disk images to a ftp 
server.  it works on ide and scsi systems, and systems with multiple 
disks.  it is completely OS independent and will image a disk no matter 
what is on it.  note that it works on disks, not partitions.  all you 
need is a system with a floppy drive and a nic.  the image is copied to 
a ftp server, so you'll need to set that up before using g4u.  
uploading the image can take a while, particularly on a slow machine 
with a large hard drive (the image is gzipped on the fly with level 9 
compression, so it eats a lot of cpu cycles).  downloading images is 
much faster, some times taking a little as ten or fifteen minutes.

i used g4u on a project about a year ago where i had to clone 15 
workstations.  using g4u i uploaded the master image to a server and 
then ran four downloads simultaneously.  took a total of four hours to 
do them all, and all worked perfectly after imaging.

jason

On Monday 25 August 2003 11:13, Jim Ray wrote:
> agreed.  i have norton enterprise ghost at 5 client sites.  works
> like a charm.  i haven't heard anyone mention a linux-based solution.
>
> is g4u used in this neck of the woods?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Bullock [mailto:cgbullock at cox.net]
> > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 10:05 AM
> > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Computer Getting Slow
> >
> >
> > We use Nortons, Enterprise Ghost, Well worth the money!!!
> >
> > Jim Ray wrote:
> > >just curious...whadaya use for image server software?