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
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
- PC DELL
Hard disk: Maxtor 20GB RAM: 512 MB Processor: Pentium 3, 866 MHz
- 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 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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@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
- PC DELL
Hard disk: Maxtor 20GB RAM: 512 MB Processor: Pentium 3, 866 MHz
- 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 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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@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
- PC DELL
Hard disk: Maxtor 20GB RAM: 512 MB Processor: Pentium 3, 866 MHz
- 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 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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