[97718] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Backup CD?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Sharpe)
Wed Nov 4 17:45:52 1998
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 14:15:27 -0800
From: Jeff Sharpe <jeff@sfg.com>
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George Lenzer wrote:
>
> Is it possible to save an entire customized installation of Redhat to a CD
> image? I've been using a DSO based program to make a sector image of my
> Windows 95 FAT16 drives. This has allowed me to successfully restore my
> systems in under ten minutes. I would like to do the same with Linux, but I
> am afraid of having perms change on me if I just copy the files to a CD. Of
> course, I would be even more interested in a way of using Linux to image 95
> and NT machines. My current imaging system allows me to boot from a CD (on
> newer machines), answer two questions then walk away. When I come back ten
> minutes later, the system is fully restored. i'm certain there has to be a
> way to do this with Linux. I wouldn't even mind using a boot floppy, if I
> could just get linux to fully restore any custom OS install from CD. Any
> ideas?
Hum... nothing automatic (meaning, to quickly restore the image to a
clean system) comes to mind (unless you wanna write something for say...
sparq drives) :-). Otherwise, making an image is easy; dd, tar or my
favourite cpio... along with (probably) a dozen commercial packages.
J
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