Try using Acronis True Image or G4U (Ghost 4 Unix), I have had really good luck with both. Imaged both CentOS only or dual boot machines without out error. Norton/Symantec doesn't seem to care about Linux/Unix systems anymore, so I have switched for all of my back/image needs. jer Cesar Lagarrigue wrote: > I've Found a page with interesing discussion about images backup > > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-28255.html > > This give a "dirty" solucion for remove special thing of ext3 (Selinux > remove resize_inode and ext_attr features) witch cause the error in ghost. > > I hope somebody help with the problem of norton ghost and clone centos 4. > > :) > > ----------- > > sfabkk > 2005-07-11, 04:53 AM PDT > Solution to using Ghost 8 with Core 3 and 4 > Good news : It can be done > > Bad News : You have to turn off SELinux Forever and remove resize_inode > and ext_attr features > from filesystem. Also if you mess this up it could kill your system, so > I would use G4U (Ghost 4 Unix) to image it first before you try. > > Here's the procedure to remove resize_inode and ext_attr features > from filesystems on an FC3 or FC4 installation. Everything must be done > from > the root account. > > Step 1 > > If you installed FC3 or FC4 with SELinux enabled, which is the default, it > you must disabled. Log on the system and edit /etc/selinux/config. > Replace SELINUX=enforced by SELINUX=disabled. If you don't disable > SELinux, the ext_attr will be set again on the root filesystem the > next time you boot and every file created or modified will have its > extended ACL entries set. > > Step 2 > > Download e2fsprogs-1.36-rc5 from SourceForge. Click on the following > link: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/e2fsprogs > > Step 3 > > Untar, compile and install the new utilities: > > tar -zxf e2fsprogs-1.36-rc5.tar.gz > cd e2fsprogs-1.36-rc5 > ./configure > make > make install > > Step 4 > > Reboot the system in single-user mode: > > type reboot > > at the GRUB splash screen, press enter then press the 'a' and > add the word single at the end of the command line (there's a space > between quiet and single) > > Step 5 > > Unmount all filesystems, including /, and remove both resize_inode > and ext_attr features. Run the following commands on all filesystems: > > debugfs -w /dev/XXXX -R "features ^resize_inode ^ext_attr" > e2fsck -y -f /dev/XXXX > > Example: > > /dev/sda1 is mounted on /boot > /dev/sda2 is mounted on / > /dev/sda5 is mounted on /home > > umount /boot > umount / > umount /home > > debugfs -w /dev/sda1 -R "features ^resize_inode ^ext_attr" > debugfs -w /dev/sda2 -R "features ^resize_inode ^ext_attr" > debugfs -w /dev/sda5 -R "features ^resize_inode ^ext_attr" > > e2fsck -y -f /dev/sda1 > e2fsck -y -f /dev/sda2 > e2fsck -y -f /dev/sda5 > > Running e2fsck on the root filesystem takes a while. > > Step 6 > > Reboot the system. > > During shutdown, you will get error messages telling you that the > root filesystem cannot be written. That's normal because the root > filesystem is still mounted read-only. It must remain mounted read- > only during shutdown. > > During boot, you will get a message telling you that the system was > not properly shutdown and ask you if you want to verify the > filesystem integrity. You can skip this step. It didn't find anything > wrong on my system. > > Your system is now ready to be Ghosted. > > link to the bugzilla report > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145307 > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Windows has detected that your mouse has moved, please wait while Windows reboots for your changes to take effect. This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.