[ale] Ghost for Linux

[James P. Kinney III]

The absolute BEST tool I've ever seen for restoring systems to pristine
state was only for the Mac. It was called Assimilator. I kept 25+ Macs
with individual personalities and network settings identical otherwise.
The app would run on a reboot and delete extra files and add missing
files and keep the network setup as per the central database. 

I have been tinkering (on the backburner) with building a similar system
using rsync for Linux/Window$. The goal is/was to use it for a regular
backup process for an office full of similarly configured machines. Each
machine would have a hardlink to the master copy file unless the local
copy had changed. Thus the "image" would be a pile of hardlinks and pile
of differences files. This would chop loads off the storage space needed
for full backups of each machine. A restore would be a boot floppy that
calls a reversed rsync from the main server.

It is (still) a pipe dream...not even vaporware...more like
fantasyware...

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 15:50, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> dd if=/dev/<disk> of=/mnt/usb/disk.img
> 
> Want compression?
> 
> dd if=/dev/<disk> | bzip2 -c9 | dd of=/mnt/usb/disk.img
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 15:57, Tom & JaVonn wrote:
> > 	
> > Anyone used g4l ?
> > 
> > Looking for a cheap or free way for clients to make images of their hard drive to external USB drives, even if they're NTFS format.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Tom
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