[CentOS] A questiong about replacing my failing drive
Jerry57 (GMail)
jerry57 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 11 22:58:31 UTC 2005
Hello Rodrigo,
Have you thought of trying g4u? It is free
http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/g4u/
The main site is down for the moement (ISP problems from the looks
of it).
jer
Saturday, June 11, 2005, 2:01:55 PM, you wrote:
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> On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 04:48:57PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote:
>> >I would like to suggest using dump/restore to make the backup.
>> >
>> >Something like:
>> >
>> >mount /dev/hdb1 /newroot
>> >dump -0f - / | (cd /newroot; restore -xf -)
>> >
>> >[]s
>>
>> why not just use Norton Ghost and ghost an image of the current drive to
>> a new drive, boot with the CentOS rescue CD, reinstall grub and you're
>> done! definitely the easiest way I can think of.
> Possible reasons:
> 1) Not everyone has it
> 2) Not everyone has Windows
> 3) Not everyone is willing to pay for Ghost
> 4) Not everyone is willing to pay for Windows
> 5) Norton Ghost is not F/OSS
> 6) Everyone who has CentOS already has dump/restore, cpio, tar and cp
> There real question becomes, then, why to use ghost (for this).
> []s
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