[LUAU] Recovery disc.

Michael & Diana Hasse hassem001 at hawaii.rr.com
Tue Jan 5 23:54:12 PST 1999


It works on Partitions and Disks.  I have never tried to use it on
directories, but dont think it has that capability.  I have used it to clone
partitions and entire disks though.  Its quite simple.
Michael Hasse

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-luau at luau.hi.net [mailto:owner-luau at luau.hi.net]On Behalf Of
> Mark Robinson
> Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 8:23 PM
> To: luau at luau.hi.net
> Subject: Re: [LUAU] Recovery disc.
>
>
> Michale does ghost work on directories, file systems,
> partitions, or entire
> disks?
>
> best Mark Robinson
>
> Michael & Diana Hasse wrote:
>
> > I use a program called Ghost to make an image of the disk to
> another disk I
> > have in the system.  I ghost the drives just before I make any
> changes to
> > the system, then after I test the changes.  It works well, but
> requires a
> > spare hard drive to do this.  Ghost fits on a bootable floppy
> so is easy to
> > run.
> > Michael Hasse
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-luau at luau.hi.net
> [mailto:owner-luau at luau.hi.net]On Behalf Of
> > > David and Max
> > >
> Sent: Monday, January 04, 1999 9:31 PM
> > > To: luau at luau.hi.net
> > > Subject: [LUAU] Recovery disc.
> > >
> > >
> > > Just wondering how to make a "Recovery Disc" for my linux box
> so that in
> > > case when I need to format my box, I can just put the
> "Recovery disc" into
> > > the CD drive and restore everything.  The idea is pretty much like the
> > > Recovery disc that comes with the PCs we can buy nowadays.
> > >
> > > I'm thinking about creating an iso image file for the hard
> drive and then
> > > burn it to a CD.  I know 'mkisofs' can do the job of creating
> the image
> > > file.  But how can I make it bootable so that I can restore
> the image back
> > > to a clean partition?  Any pointers on how to do that?  Anybody
> > > tried to do
> > > this before?
> > >
> > > -Max
> > >
> > >
> > >
>





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