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Re: [LUG] Partition image / Ghost - logical volumes

 

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Julian Hall wrote:
| DAVID BROOK wrote:
|
|> Does anyone have a definitive answer to the following please?
|>
|> a)  does Norton Ghost work for Reiser FS partitions and if yes, will
|> it work with Logical Volumes?
|
|
| Hi David,
|
| I have backed up my Linux partition on the laptop with Ghost albeit not
| Reiser formatted.  Essentially Ghost doesn't (seem to) care what the
| data is or the formatting, all it does is backup the raw data.  On that
| basis I can't see a problem with using Reiser or any other file system
| as all Ghost does is back up the entire partition en-bloc.  Yes it does
| work with Logical volumes as my laptop is dual-booting Linix and Windows
| and Linux is on a logical partition.
|
|>
|> b)  does Partition Image work with Reiser (which I believe is true),
|> but will it work with Logical Volumes(cannot find a definitive answer
|> to this). Does anyone know if the Partition Image project is no longer
|> supported - have heard this to be the case.
|
|
| Never used it so can't say, sorry.
|
|> c)  are there any other methods to make a very simple disc snap shot
|> for security/cloning purposes (we currently use Bacula for our
|> networked file securities, but it is not ideal for bare metal recovery
|> situations.
|

Last time I used PM to resize a linux partition.. it went drasically
wrong...

reload time...

That was a time ago mind.. so it _may_ have you checked their website ?

Neil
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