Re: [cobalt-users] Cloning the Hard drive in a RaQ4

[Dmitry Alexeyev <dmi_a@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi.,
> I need to do some radical changes/additions to my server. Updates,
> software installs etc. but I have a system that's OK now. I need to
> clone/copy/mirror the drive prior to doing this and wondered if you
> guys could suggest the best way to do this.
> Les

Hi!

Maybe you should give this one a try, I can build RPM for you if you 
wish: 



Filename: partimage-0.6.3-alt1.i586.rpm
Description: Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX partition imaging utility
 Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX partition imaging utility: it saves all 
used
 blocks in a partition to an image file. This image file can be 
compressed
 using gzip or bzip2 compression to save space, and even split into 
multiple
 files to be copied to movable media such as Zip disks or CD-R.

 The following partition types are supported:

   - Ext2FS   (the Linux standard)
   - ReiserFS (a new, powerful journalling file system)
   - NTFS     (Windows NT File System)
   - FAT16/32 (DOS & Windows file systems)
   - HPFS     (OS/2 File System)
   - JFS      (IBM Jounalized File System for AIX)
   - XFS      (SGI Jounalized File System for IRIX)
   - HFS      (Hierarchical File System for MacOS)

 This allows you to back up a full Linux/Windows system with a single
 operation. When problems such as viruses, crashes, or other errors 
occur, you
 just have to restore, and after several minutes your system can be 
restored
 (boot record and all your files) and fully working.

 This is also very useful when installing the same software on many 
machines:
 just install one of them, create an image, and just restore the image 
on all
 other machines. Then, after the first one, each machine installation 
can take
 just minutes.

Dmitry