[TriLUG] making a disk image

Rick Steeves ricks at duke.edu
Mon Feb 25 22:59:55 EST 2002


You do know you can use Norton Ghost to image a linux box, right? Just boot 
to a DOS disk, and run ghost.exe

At 10:45 PM 2/25/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Folks,
>
>Hey, I'm curious if any of your out there have ever used any Linux
>software for making backup images of your file systems, perhaps
>something similar to Norton's Ghost software.  I would like to back up
>my Linux drives since I heard one of them making some rather unfortunate
>noises one evening.  I'm afraid that if I spin them down, they won't
>spin back up, and I would like to make decent backups before that
>happens.
>
>Any thoughts you might have on a good disk imaging software would be
>helpful.  Thanks!
>
>Regards,
>Ben Pitzer
>
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Rick Steeves
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