Re: drive backup (was: Unicode TTF containing CJK?)

[Jake Morrison <jake_morrison@example.com>]

I remember reading a "Linux success story" about some guy
who had set up a disk cloning process for his employer
using dd, which avoided paying Ghost royalties (or something
like that). It sounded pretty straightforward, just some scripts.
Not very user friendly for a backup, though....

Jake

--- Peter Evans <peter@example.com> wrote:
> Norman Diamond:
> 
> > use something like Ghost[*] to back up your Linux partitions onto
> > an external drive if it will do so.
> 
> An alternative that sounds interesting is Paragon's Drive Backup
> 2000,
> http://www.paragon-gmbh.com/n_db.htm , of which we read:
> 
> >  All commercial filesystems (FAT, FAT32, NTFS, HPFS, Ext2FS,
> > Linux Swap, NetWare FS) can be handled by Drive Backup for
> > copying/imaging. It means you can copy HDD/partition having 
> > these file systems to another hard disk, back it up or restore
> 
> (from http://www.paragon-gmbh.com/n_db_requir.htm ). Not free, let
> alone
> open-source, but downloadable for $29.95, which I imagine compares
> favorably with *Ghost* (tho' I haven't checked).
> 
> >  Does anyone know if Gnu is working on a free copy of Ghost? 
> 
> I don't know, but (i) XXCOPY http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy/ is worth a
> look for other filesystems (it's freeware for personal use), and (ii)
> its author writes at
> http://www.luni.org/mail-archive/Dec2000/0107.html
> :
> 
> > My immediate future project involves in porting my
> > XXCOPY utility to the Linux environment
> 
> --------------------
> Peter Evans peter@example.com
> 
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