[TriLUG] backup up a laptop disk for replacement

Ryan Leathers Ryan.Leathers at globalknowledge.com
Thu Nov 7 16:01:01 EST 2002


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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