Back Up/Restore Hard Drives And Partitions With Ghost4Linux
more info http://www.howtoforge.com/back_up_restore_harddrives_partitions_with_ghost4linux
Version 1.0
Author: Falko Timme <ft [at] falkotimme [dot] com>
Last edited 01/02/2007
This tutorial shows how you can back up and restore hard drives and partitions with Ghost4Linux. Ghost4Linux is a Linux Live-CD that you insert into your computer; it contains hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tools similar to Norton Ghost. The created images are compressed and transferred to an FTP server instead of cloning locally.
I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!
1 Preliminary Note
I’ve tested Ghost4Linux by letting it back up and restore the /dev/sda1 partition of my Ubuntu Edgy Eft desktop. The backups are done via FTP, so we need an FTP server, preferably in our local network because large amounts of data might be transferred. If you don’t know how to set up an FTP server, you can find two examples here:
- http://www.howtoforge.com/proftpd_mysql_virtual_hosting
- http://www.howtoforge.com/pureftpd_mysql_virtual_hosting
You need an FTP user plus his password, and make sure that this user’s quota is big enough because the images that are created can be some GB of size, depending on the size and usage of the partitions that you back up.
In this tutorial, my systems are in the 192.168.0.0 network, and I have a DHCP server on my router (192.168.0.1). My Ubuntu desktop is assigned the IP address 192.168.0.213 by the DHCP server. My FTP server has the static IP address 192.168.0.100, the FTP username is exampleuser, his password is howtoforge.
The DHCP server is optional, all this works with static IP addresses, too.
very good