[CentOS] The equivalent of Ghosting the system

Mark Schoonover

schoon at amgt.com
Wed Jan 31 02:54:11 UTC 2007


Todd Cary wrote:
> If I were to lose my main hard drive, I would like to have the
> opportunity to do the same as I can do using Windows: restore from my
> USB and have a working system.
> 
> If I were to rsync everything on the main drive (excluding the backup
> drive, of course and a few other directories) to my USB drive, could I
> restore using some CD based version of Linux e.g. Knoppix?
> 
> Todd

Todd,

	I've used Ghost for Linux with great success, Windows machines as
well. Read up about it here: http://freshmeat.net/projects/g4l/

Thanks!

Mark Schoonover
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