[nflug] Disk Image/Restore

[Sam Stern]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf
> Of Frank Kumro
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 8:34 AM
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: [nflug] Disk Image/Restore
> 
> Is there a way to create a single image of a hard drive in linux? This
> hard drive is 4gb and I need the backup because I want to transfer the
> image to a new (larger) hard drive and then expand that partition to
> take up the whole drive. Now this is not my computer its a companies
> windows 98 machine, its beyond me why a company is using windows 98.
> In windows there is Acronis True Image 9 which appears to do what I
> want however I would have to use a family members machine to do that
> (since I dont run windoze). So is there any way in linux to do this?
> Thanks in advance !!


Hi Frank,

I use Acronis TruImage routinely on Linux, BSD and Windows. Here is how I do
it:

1) Install Acronis on a Windows machine with a  cd burner
2) Burn an Acronis restore cd.
3) Boot the Linux system with the Acronis CD
4) Image or restore your system as needed.

If the core problem is that you need Windows to get the Acronis program
installed in the first place, I would recommend installing the free VMware
server and then use that to run Win98 to get Acronis installed and thus
access to the cd image.

HTH,

Sam S.


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