[ale] Ghost for Linux

Brian MacLeod bmacleod at guc.usg.edu
Wed Sep 29 09:13:19 EDT 2004


It'd be great if NTFS was something more than experimental.  Does work
nicely with ext2/3, though, I can honestly say that.

Bnm
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On 
> Behalf Of Jonathan Glass
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 4:40 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: RE: [ale] Ghost for Linux
> 
> http://partimage.org/
> 
> ?
> 
> Jonathan Glass
> 
> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 16:20, Brian MacLeod wrote:
> > > is there a way to exclude directories when using dd?  i wouldn't 
> > > want to image the "restore points" if i could help it.
> > 
> > > preston
> > 
> > That's part of the trade off with using dd this way.  
> You're taking a 
> > snapshot of the partition and any file system on it.  
> Excluding files 
> > would require reading the file system and pumping that out to an 
> > appropriate piece of software (like tar).
> > 
> > Fortunately, I don't have many XP machines to take care of, 
> and they 
> > behave well enough with the points copied.  I will also admit this 
> > process can be slow, but I've found it invaluable for 
> forensics, since 
> > it produces exact copies.
> > 
> > Brian
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