You might take a look at Partimage which has most of the functionality
of ghost. It's not as polished as ghost, but it is free. It is also
very fast. My Linux partition is 80 gigs which includes a VMware XP Pro
folder, so about 28 gigs of the 80 gigs is in used. I can create a disk
image of the file in a little over 12 minutes, and then verify the image
in about 10 minutes. I have a couple of 200 gig drives in my desktop
system, (eg IDE 0 and IDE1), so I use IDE 1 strictly for backups. I can
even backup other computers in the network to my desktop IDE 1, using
the existing network and a couple of Partimage CDs to create a peer to
peer connection.
Its easy to restore individual folders or files. All I need to do is
restore a backup image to another partition, and then mount that
partition under the original source Linux OS. Then I can fire up my
file explorer and walk down the mount point to the folder and file
needed, click on it and issue a copy, then paste it back to where it is
needed.
Partimage may be available under Knoppix, which has a GUI, but I prefer
the Partimage that is offered from http://www.partimage.org with its
character based interface. Since I'm running Windows under VMware, I'm
not sure have effective Partimage would be with that OS.
http://www.partimage.org/
Regards,
LelandJ
Alan Bourke wrote:
>WHat I like about Ghost is that it can boot and bit image and entire
>drive to a USB-connected external HDD.
>
>I'm suprised that there are no open-source apps that do what Ghost does.
>Are there any in the Linux world?
>
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>From: profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-bounces (at) leafe .D.OT com]
>On Behalf Of Bill Arnold
>Sent: 30 September 2005 12:09
>To: profoxtech@leafe.com
>Subject: [NF] Norton Ghost does do individual file/folder restores
>
>
>I don't believe that I just now see this, so I thought I'd pass it on.
>
>After installing Ghost, I looked around it's main screen for a way to
>restore individual files/folders and it wasn't there - so I assumed the
>product was for use in full drive backups/restores, which is a good
>thing because it takes into account the OS (gets past problems trying to
>just use XCOPY for example). I was very disappointed over that, but
>happy to have the full drive (compressed) backups, so I just used the
>program for that reason.
>
>Then earlier today, I just happened to right-click the ghost icon in the
>system tray and noticed the "Restore files or folders" option right
>there. Clicked it, tested it, and sure enough, it will restore
>files/folders! This feature just isn't in the main Ghost screen,
>incredibly enough.
>
>So how I'm thrilled with Ghost 9! Now I see it as a highly recommended,
>totally valuable program. I paid something like $70 for it, but see it
>on the net even cheaper.
>
>
>Bill
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