On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 11:06, Ted Kaczmarek wrote:

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        Anyone have any experience getting ghost to do a

successful image with CentOS, Fedora, or RHEL? It worked great with RH9, but now a days I find it nearly impossible to get it to work properly. Any tips would be helpful. We spin up a large number of servers on a weekly basis and it would be nice to just be able to image them.

If you are not using any third party software maintaining a a yum repository instead of spinning images may be an alternative for you. Even with third party stuff with the proper QA procedures you should not have any issues. If you have supported copy of ghost taking the issue up with Symantec would be for the betterment of the community at large.

Or, if the machines are close to identical including the drives, just use dd to copy the whole disk. It's slow in real-time but takes very little human time. If you have swappable drive carriers you can boot a suitable master machine with the Centos install disk in rescue mode to run the dd command, then swap the drive in place and bring the new machine up in single user mode to change the hostname and IP. Or boot the new machine in rescue mode and bring up the network or use knoppix CD, then use ssh to access an image over the network that you write to the local drive with dd. Start it up and go to lunch and you won't notice that it took a long time to complete...

This sound nice...

My experience with symantec norton ghost is work on Centos 3.x ext3 (also working well with ntfs win2000 and winxp/2003), but with Centos 4.x ext3 this die with a error (and corrupt the file .gho). My version is Norton Ghost 8.0 Enterprise. (i test 8.2 but not working with centos 4.x).

You could use a newer version of norton ghost, maybe are too old. (check KB/support of norton ghost), also tried to dump with ghost.exe -IR. (remeber this make images with free space and not work ghost explorer).

Check sourceforge.net or freshmeat.net for other software, i believe this are not the only make filesystem image.

I like to know if are other users have ghost and make images in no RAW (-IR) mode for clone centos 4.x, maybe a patch or something.

Peter Loron wrote:

How about Partimage?

http://www.partimage.org/

-Pete

Drew Weaver wrote:

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       Anyone have any experience getting ghost to do a successful

image with CentOS, Fedora, or RHEL? It worked great with RH9, but now a days I find it nearly impossible to get it to work properly. Any tips would be helpful. We spin up a large number of servers on a weekly basis and it would be nice to just be able to image them.

Thanks,

-Drew

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