[CentOS] A questiong about replacing my failing drive

[William Warren]

you can also get ghost to run form a bootable cd or floppy..:)

Mark Weaver wrote:

> Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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>> On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 04:48:57PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote:
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>>>> I would like to suggest using dump/restore to make the backup.
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>>>> Something like:
>>>>
>>>> mount /dev/hdb1 /newroot
>>>> dump -0f - / | (cd /newroot; restore -xf -)
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>>>> []s
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>>> 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.
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>> 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).
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>> - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org>
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> 
> because it simply works with the least amount of possibility for error. 
> Its a matter of using the right tool for the job. nothin more nothin less.
> 

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