[lug] RH 7.2 & Norton Ghost

[Ferdinand Schmid]

I have had very mixed luck with Norton Ghost in the past.  Some systems 
simply wouldn't work properly (the ghosting process would exit 
abnormally - but not necessarily in the same place).  Upgrading to newer 
versions of Ghost sometimes helped.

Eventually I started using mondo <http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo> and 
haven't seen any more problems since.  It can also write its backup 
image to tape drive, nfs partition, ...  Very flexible and reliable. 
You can restore from floppy boot disk or CD.

Maybe I should do a mondo demo at a meeting sometime.

Ferdinand

Rwheaton wrote:
> hello,                                                                
>      I have been trying to make an image of a 7.2 install using Norton
> Ghost server (over an ethernet connection).  In the past, previous    
> versions of RH would work, but for some reason, 7.2 just dies.        
> There's no discernable place that it always dies at.  We origionally  
> thought that the reason it was dying was because of the ext3          
> filesystem, but it recently died on a 7.2 install that was partitioned
> with ext2.  I'm really baffled, and have found nothing on google or   
> any other site that would point to something different about 7.2 that 
> would kill creation of an image.                                      
>                                                                       
> BTW, i've been on the list for quite a while now, but just recently   
> moved into the area, so this is really my first post :-).  so far,    
> boulder kicks ass.                                                    
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> thanks,                                                               
> -ryan                                                                 
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Ferdinand Schmid
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