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Kelly Jones wrote: | Only the later versions of Ghost support Linux partitions. Try | partimage (available on Knoppix) as a free and in someways superior | alternative to Ghost. | | | | On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 00:43 +0000, Julian Hall wrote: | |>Hi All, |> |>Something I should have realised a long time ago I thought I would pass |>on to those who may not know - or are criminally slow on the uptake like |>me ;) |> |>I always thought of Norton Ghost as a Windows program so developed a |>blind spot to it. Tonight I discovered much to my joy it will back up |>Linux partitions too. Basically I made a Win98 boot CD and put Ghost on |>another. Then, booting into DOS, swap CD and bingo! Ghost sees all my |>partitions regardless of their type of format! :) All I have to do now |>is boot back into Windows, and pass the backed up images to the desktop |>via the network :) |> |>It's quite educational watching the backup (sad that I am :) ) I can |>watch the paths for all the bits and pieces and learn where things |>should go :) |> |>BTW it's the laptop, with no floppy drive.. hence the requirement to |>waste a CD on about 1Mb of data. |> |>Kind regards, |> |>Julian |> |
Allows backups oer a network, to CD, DVD, tape, mixture of the above, ftp/nfs/sftp iirc...
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