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

[Juan Pablo Espino]

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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