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Adam J
10-15-2002, 03:13 PM
which is better:
- select "disk to image", making an image of the disk (which gets all partitions)
- selecting "partition to image", and selecting all 3 partitions and making one image of all of them.
-selecting "partition to image", and do that individually for each partition (meaning 3 images for a standard linux drive, one for each partition).
this is for redhat 7.2, allowing setup to auto partition the dirve (meaning no special circumstances, just standard install).
ona side note, which do u have better luck with, ghost 2003 or the latest version of powerquest driveimage?
windoze killa
10-15-2002, 05:14 PM
If you use disk to image then when you go to put it back you don't have a choice on the order. If you use partition to image you can put them anywhere you want You just have to do it more times.
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Also I am not sure if it will handle ext3 partitions. Try using partimage.
Adam J
10-15-2002, 05:30 PM
well if i put it back, i want it EXACTLY as it was, so in my case, disk to image is ok, right?
windoze killa
10-15-2002, 06:07 PM
It should be fine.
bwkaz
10-15-2002, 11:02 PM
I like disk to image as well, personally, because when I'm laying the image down, I can go partition from image and still choose that image file. Ghost (this is version 6.0, so maybe newer versions do it differently) asks me which partition out of the image I want to lay down on which partition of the drive.
If you ever need to move partitions, you can probably get gdisk to create the proper partition layout in a batch process, then install partition from image for each one.
Flexibility is good, and disk to image gives me that flexibility later.
Originally posted by Adam J
which is better:
- select "disk to image", making an image of the disk (which gets all partitions)
- selecting "partition to image", and selecting all 3 partitions and making one image of all of them.
-selecting "partition to image", and do that individually for each partition (meaning 3 images for a standard linux drive, one for each partition).
this is for redhat 7.2, allowing setup to auto partition the dirve (meaning no special circumstances, just standard install).
ona side note, which do u have better luck with, ghost 2003 or the latest version of powerquest driveimage?
You only have one choice - Ghost 2003. The newest driveimage doesn't support ext3 file system so you can't use it to backup your RH7.2!! You can use any one of 3 ways to create RH 7.2 system image. But the biggest problem is you can't restore the image using ghost 2003. You have to re-move the partitions of RH7.2, then you can restore the image, but ghost 2003 doesn't have that feature (at least I don't know how to re-move the partition using ghost 2003).
Of cause you can find anither (free) software -- partition image to backup ext3 system.......
Adam J
10-22-2002, 12:58 PM
i used ghost 2003 and it worked. i chose partition to image when i backed it up (and clicked all the aprtitions) and when i went to restore it, i just had to restore partition FROM image and i just restored each partition one at a time. worked great!