-
Senior Member
registered user
Cloning Harddrive with Knoppix and G4L
G4L is a Free/Open Source alternative to Norton Ghost.With G4L you can clone any hard drive immaterial of the content or filesystem on it including Microsoft Windows NTFS .G4U(Ghost for Unix) and G4L(Ghost For Linux) are similar.
It is a bit-by0bit copier of the hard drive so it will copy even the partition table/MBR etc regardless of the OS/platform.
I have written up instructions on using it with Knoppix.
http://bhavesh.freeshell.org/cloninghd.html
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Free Software , Free Speech , Free Society
http://bhavesh.freeshell.org
-
Administrator
Site Admin-
I'm not quite understanding something here. dd will do a byte by byte copy. Heck, I use it to back up MBRs, even on a system with only MS software (thanks to Knoppix). But in it normal mode, Ghost doesn't do a byte by byte copy (although you can force it to). It copies files, so it doesn't need to waste space when the drive or partition is partially full. It compresses that for even more space savings. And it can be used to restore the Ghost copy to a different size or geometry partition, or even to just extract a few needed files from the backup. Doesn't doing a byte by byte copy fail in all of those areas? And what benefit does G4U/G4L have over a simple dd copy?
-
Senior Member
registered user
Originally Posted by
Harry Kuhman
I'm not quite understanding something here. dd will do a byte by byte copy. Heck, I use it to back up MBRs, even on a system with only MS software (thanks to Knoppix). But in it normal mode, Ghost doesn't do a byte by byte copy (although you can force it to). It copies files, so it doesn't need to waste space when the drive or partition is partially full. It compresses that for even more space savings. And it can be used to restore the Ghost copy to a different size or geometry partition, or even to just extract a few needed files from the backup. Doesn't doing a byte by byte copy fail in all of those areas? And what benefit does G4U/G4L have over a simple dd copy?
Yes G4L and G4U also are completey based on dd.It provides a better front end to dd, and it zips it .That is the main selling point that it has a UI and it allows you bot backup/restore to an FTP site.
Similar Threads
-
By kidclone in forum MS Windows & New to Linux
Replies: 0
Last Post: 04-27-2007, 01:39 AM
-
By eon in forum General Support
Replies: 6
Last Post: 04-02-2005, 11:14 AM
-
By drjawn in forum General Support
Replies: 10
Last Post: 01-17-2005, 12:23 PM
-
By xeoron in forum Hdd Install / Debian / Apt
Replies: 5
Last Post: 09-03-2004, 10:31 AM
-
By Balaam in forum General Support
Replies: 15
Last Post: 04-07-2004, 12:34 PM
Posting Permissions
- You may not post new threads
- You may not post replies
- You may not post attachments
- You may not edit your posts
-
Forum Rules
ASUS H110M-R Motherboard Intel 6th/7th Gen LGA1151 DDR4 Micro-ATX i/o shield
$42.00
***NEW*** BCM RX67Q Gaming Motherboard | Intel Q67 2nd/3rd Gen. | LGA1155 | DDR3
$29.77
Micro ATX Desktop Motherboard ASUS H110M-C LGA 1151
$31.95
Gigabyte AMD B550 UD AC Gaming Motherboard - AMD B550 Chipset - AM4 Socket - AMD
$89.99
ASUS Prime Z390-A LGA 1151 Intel Z390 SATA USB 3.1 ATX Motherboard NO I/O
$99.00
MSI B450M PRO-VDH MAX AM4 AMD B450 USB3.2 Micro-ATX Motherboard
$67.99
Asrock Z390 Phantom Gaming 4S/AC Wifi 8th/9th Gen Intel 1151 Motherboard Bulk
$47.55
Gigabyte Ultra Durable B550 GAMING X V2 Desktop Motherboard
$94.99
***NEW*** BCM RX67Q mATX Gaming Motherboard Combo | Intel i5-3470 | 16GB DDR3
$49.77
BTC-S37 Mining Motherboard Kit /w SSD & Ram Preinstalled
$59.99