[NTLUG:Discuss] Norton Ghost equivalent for linux

[Chris Cox]

gan hawk wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> G4U (http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/) is a ghost equivalent for unix. But it 
> requires a FTP server and if you have just 4 boxes, you might as well 
> use ssh as discribed below. In case you do not have a Live CD image, you 
> can use the Live CD (netbsd) provided in the G4U website.

Also, g4u requires a VERY liberal ftp server.
The resulting image is the same size at doing a remote copy
of the device with compression though... really the same thing,
but the bootable g4u CD does make things a bit more convenient if
you happen to have a liberal ftp server on the network.

> 
> For those of you who want to image lot of computers (like > 200), I 
> found this software dolly 
> (http://corvus.kek.jp/~manabe/pcf/dolly/index.htm) usefull. It creates a 
> ring using all the computers and pushes the image in large chunks. Each 
> computer recives the chunk, writes to the hard drive and passes the 
> image chunk to the next computer. Using this, I could image 200 
> computers with a 8GB image in 2.5 hours. Other software like G4U has a 
> serious bottle neck on the FTP server for a large number of computers.

Wow.. I haven't seen this one!