Re: [opensuse] Partition imaging program(s)

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Jay Mistry <jaylinux53@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Allen Zhu <allen.jaloola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why don't you get a new disk? This one's only 40GB, then you use Ghost
and try to copy the files over. Ghost is on Hiren's BootCD.
(From an earlier message - Allen Zhu).

What version of Ghost do you use ? Can it (Norton Ghost) properly
backup and restore ext3 --> ext3 partitions ? What about ext3 --> NTFS
partitions ? I am an old Ghost user & use a NG 2003 DOS Boot CD to
backup & restore NTFS <---> partitions on Windows system (dual-boot
openSUSE 11.1 & Windows XP Prof).

I have not used Ghost for ext3 partition image backup, though have
been using it regularly for NTFS --> NTFS (Windows) partition backup.

For Linux, I have tried partimage, but that will not image an ext3 -->
NTFS (it can save the ext3 partn. image to NTFS partition, but from
some posts at the partimage Forums, it seems there are problems in
restoring the image to ext3, if the image is saved to an NTFS
partition).
Are there any other programs (other than Norton Ghost & partimage)
that can image a Linux partition to NTFS) and restore from image
properly ? Most of the free space on my HD's is on NTFS partitions.

Thanks,

Jay
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I don't own a copy of Ghost, like I said, there's a copy on Hiren's
bootcd that works fine on NTFS drives which is what I use too. It's
probably old.

I'm not an expert on disk cloning, but I'm saying, could he clone his
disk and try a new one and see if it's file errors or disk errors
right? I mean, there are a lot of special disk offers out there...

Allen
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