On 12 Dec 2011 at 19:41, Paul Allen Newell wrote: Date sent: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:41:21 -0800 From: Paul Allen Newell <pnewell@xxxxxxxxxx> To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Newell, Paul" <pnewell@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: fedora equivalent of recovery disk ... additional question > On 12/12/2011 9:11 AM, g wrote: > > On 12/12/2011 02:27 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > > <> > > > > hello michael, > > > > i am glad you follow this list. > > > > > >> As the current maintainer of G4L since about 2004, I'm not sure > >> which version is included with partedmagic, but the latest release > >> version on sourceforge has newer version of udpcast and has > >> fsarchiver that does file level backups of many file systems. It > >> also has lvm support.. > > -=- > > > > ok. so what is ability to span dvd's to allow backup/clone of an hdd > > that is larger than 4 gb? > > > > > > thank you. > > > > Michael: > > Given that you are the maintainer of this package, I want to ask > whether G4L is, in your opinion, a good option. As my prior email > stated, I am inclined to try the Clonezilla approach, but when I saw > your email that you were maintaining the package that might work for > me, I felt that was worth asking you. > > My current thinking is 32GB stick and using Clonezilla by itself > (though I have asked if I could run it through partedmagic) > G4L does images of disk and/or partitions using dd in the raw mode with compression using various options. lzop is the default with the best combination of speed and size. It does also include ntfsclone for file level backup of ntfs partitions, and fsarchiver that does file level backups as well, and both also use compression. Images can be stored on ftp server or local devices or sshfs or nfs or cifs, but not looked at doing so to cds or dvds for various reasons. Have used usb disks with no problem, and use the compression tool test option to confirm that images are good. Mostly, it is designed to run from the cd image, though it can be added to the grub menu as a boot option to run in ram by copying the kernel and ramdisk.lzma file to the boot directory. (Grub option to just load G4L with default kernel 3.0.4 from G4L 0.39) title G4L kernel /bz3x1.4 ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0 telnetd=yes initrd /ramdisk.lzma (An option that I use in my classroom to restore the XP partition of machines from an image stored on /dev/sda6 that takes about 12 minutes) title G4L Restore XP kernel /bz3x1.4 ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0 telnetd=yes run="mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/local && cd /mnt/local && ./reimagexp " initrd /ramdisk.lzma It can also be transferred to a flash from the cd image, and use syslinux to make the flash bootable. Can also run from grub4dos boot options as well. Just uses a text screen with dialog gui, and uses kernels built from kernel.org source. Busybox is used for many of the support programs, but uses Fedora programs and files for some, and everything is build on my Fedora machines. > Thanks in advance for your thoughts, > Paul > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have > a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 11549002.018866 | EINSTEIN 6989398.709851 ROSETTA 4026776.754837 | ABC 9769346.053113 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
