Well, it's not exactly Ghost, but my favorite utility is EXT2 dump from http://dump.sourceforge.net. It is a port of the BSD dump utility, which also showed up in Solaris under the name UFSdump, since that's the filesystem that Solaris uses. It has a strange syntax, but is easy to write scripts for. What really comes in handy is to build a statically-linked version, then put the "restore" utility on a floppy disk or CD. Then, you can boot a rescue disk, mount the floppy or CD with restore, and regardless of what libraries are on the rescue disk, you can restore your backups. I've actually done a successful restore of an entire Linux system this way. I just booted the rescue CD and after restoring the backups to newly-formatted partitions, did a "chroot" command, then ran lilo. From there, it was as if nothing had happened. I doubt it would be that easy in Windows. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Butch Bussen Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 6:04 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: commands Speaking of drives and such and windows not recognizing them. What do you folks use to back up your systems. I have a box I run Linux on for i r l p ham radio stuff and I'm looking for a way to ghost or immage the drive. I'm told later versions of ghost will do this, but of course wonderful ghost in its g u i even in dos doesn't talk. Any suggestions? 73s Butch Bussen wa0vjr _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
