[Mimedefang] Re: Disk imaging software

[WBrown at e1b.org]

mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com wrote on 07/28/2004 12:46:26 
PM:

> There is no imaging of a live system over a network that will really 
achieve
> what you want.  Assuming you can take down the system, your choices are:
> 
> -- Down the box and run ghost.  It works for ext2/ext3 quite well.  I 
use
> the Corp Edition.  If you use Ghost, make DAMN sure you have a boot 
floppy
> for the system because 99.9% of the time I have had to run lilo -v or
> grub-install on the system to reinit the boot block correctly for Linux.

Except Ghost doesn't support RAID systems as documented at 
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ghost.nsf/d87bb6ce0bde286d88256d6a00452701/7205dc44f3434700882566f10077bfd2?OpenDocument&prod=Symantec%20Ghost&ver=8.0&src=ent&pcode=symghost&dtype=corp&svy=&prev=&miniver=symghost_8

I tried using Ghost 8.0 and it locked up.
 
> -- Use Tar in Single Mode. Here's some hints about tar that I've found 
over
> the years.

I'll keep your advice in mind if I end up going that route.  Others 
suggested Mondo, so I'll look at that.