[CentOS] Does CentOS has problems with Norton Ghost 2003 images?

[Maciej Zenczykowski]

Does it have to be Norton Ghost 2003?
I know there are other solutions (GPL'ed) which achieve much the same
thing... g4u and g4l coming to mind (and let's keep off the question of
whether g4l was ripped of g4u, I think it was and I also think the
arguments for g4l being a rip of g4u are totally misguided and screwed
up).  Never used either, although I'd probably try g4l first (it's come
along way since the rough beginnings...)

Cheers,
MaZe.

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Juan Pablo Espino wrote:

> Thanks for the quick answer!
> Do u know a way around this problem? How can we make an image of the
> dual boot hardrive?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Juan P. Espino
>
>
>
> On 4/27/05, Maciej Zenczykowski <maze at cela.pl> wrote:
> > Well, believe it or not this means Norton Ghost is screwed up.  Why?
> > Cause a simple cat /dev/hda | cdrecord dev=/dev/dvd ... works fine as a
> > backup (once everything is mounted read-only and synced) for me.
> >
> > Regardless this can't be a CentOS problem.  This might have to do with
> > Norton trying to parse the filesystem - which now includes selinux
> > labels...  Parsing the file system is not something it should be doing.
> > It should be doing a bit by bit copy - possibly with compression.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > MaZe.
> >
> > On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Juan Pablo Espino wrote:
> >
> > > Hello all
> > >
> > > We have two very important workstations dedicated to tasks of
> > > development and investigation.  At the moment we have installed a dual
> > > boot platform with CentOS 4.0 and Windows XP Proffessional SP2.  In
> > > order to do backups of these machines we need to create an image with
> > > Norton Ghost 2003.
> > >
> > > We have worked with Ghost during several years with different
> > > platforms (Red Hat, White Box Linux, Windows) without problems but now
> > > we are facing problems with our CentOS. When the creation of the image
> > > reaches approximately 50% in BOTH machines the Norton Ghost aborts
> > > with an error.  Using the "force cloning" option of Ghost we managed
> > > to complete the creation of the image, nevertheless when recovering it
> > > we got this error: GRUB GRUB (the machine never booted)
> > >
> > > Then we tried to boot CentOS from a floppy and linux rescue and it
> > > didn't work.  Two days ago we made and we recovered images to those
> > > same discs with White Box and WinXP without problems.
> > >
> > > Given our experience with Norton Ghost, we considered seriously that
> > > the problem is CentOS.  We did many tests to have arrived at this
> > > consideration. Here are the details:
> > >
> > > Two exactly equal machines (the same hardware and resources), except
> > > by the hard disk
> > >
> > > 1.  PC DELL
> > > Hard disk:  Maxtor 20GB
> > > RAM: 512 MB
> > > Processor:  Pentium 3, 866 MHz
> > >
> > > 2.  PC DELL
> > > Hard disk:  Seagate 20GB
> > > RAM: 512 MB
> > > Processor:  Pentium 3, 866 MHz
> > >
> > > The disk partitions are:
> > >
> > > /hda1 windows xp      10 GB
> > > /hda2 /boot           100 MB
> > > /hda3         /               8900 MB
> > > /hda4 swap            1 GB
> > >
> > > We would like to know if someone has had the same problem (making an
> > > image with Norton Ghost 2003 to a dual boot system using Windows and
> > > CentOS.)  Any suggestions are VERY important for us.  Thanks in
> > > advance.  Regards,
> > >
> > >
> > > Juan P. Espino
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