[CentOS] A questiong about replacing my failing drive

[Jerry57 (GMail)]

Hello Rodrigo,

  Have you thought of trying g4u?  It is free
  http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/g4u/
  The main site is down for the moement (ISP problems from the looks
  of it).

  jer

Saturday, June 11, 2005, 2:01:55 PM, you wrote:

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> On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 04:48:57PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote:
>> >I would like to suggest using dump/restore to make the backup.
>> >
>> >Something like:
>> >
>> >mount /dev/hdb1 /newroot
>> >dump -0f - / | (cd /newroot; restore -xf -)
>> >
>> >[]s
>> 
>> 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.

> 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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