Use Ghost to achieve backup of Linux system

In linux, you can still achieve ghost backup. If you are particularly disgusted with simplicity, ease, intuitiveness, and speed, I suggest you use dd tar grub, otherwise please see the ghost article I wrote.

Our purpose: to back up a Linux partition and generate a backup file.

Our wishes: simple, safe and efficient.

The advantages of ghost:

Graphic, easy to use. More online help. Mouse operation, multiple computers in the LAN are restored at the same time. Support ntfs partitioning, etc. For Linux, ghost can help debian simplify the hard disk installation minimum system and simplify, phased deployment of lfs, and use server-client ghost technology to help LAN batch deployment of Linux, that is, one-to-many network clone.

One Starts dos.

1 If you have a floppy drive you can start the computer with the win98 boot disk.

2 can be started with the system maintenance CD.

3 If you have win, you can start it from boot.ini with a program like a dwarf.

Two runs ghost

ghost must be 8.3 or higher, online for dos. Select local--->partition--->to disk

Select the Linux partition you want to back up, then select the target partition. Ok.

Description:

1 The source partition must be ext2/ext3 format. You can select the fat32 partition and the ntfs partition for the target partition. If it is fat32 partition, ghost automatically splits the file, automatically compresses, I used to compress the 5GB ext3 partition to 1.7G

2 In win, you can use ghostexplorer to open a compressed file to export a file.

3 ghost8.2 version is not recommended to write ntfs partition under dos.

4 If you want to backup and restore the Linux partition under win, you can use ghost32. It is recommended to use the high version, the current highest version 10. This is the easiest backup recovery method, provided you have win

5 other third-party tools, such as acronis true image is also possible.

7 What is the partition type that ghost does not support?

A:

The currently supported partitions are: FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, EXT2/3

Unsupported means:

1 cannot be compressed : A partition of 5 GB backup is 5GB

2 can not browse, export the files inside the package.

It is not impossible to back up and restore.

Ghost This kind of program has a backup function by sector backup, which can backup and restore any partition. In other words, my approach can back up any partition, including unix, Linux, win, dos, *bsd, etc., from the past to the present to any future system.

8 Try not to back up yourself in a running system. It's like not having to give yourself an operation. If you want to back up Linux with Linux, please find a livecd boot disk.

9 Back up as much as possible in Linux. Try not to use tar, cp file backup programs. Back up partitions with the file backup program. Some files that cannot be backed up can't be backed up, and some metadata can't be backed up. An obvious example is that tar can't back up grub or lilo on this partition, as well as seLinux rules.

10 In terms of speed, many Linux distributions do not open dma. Under Linux with dma, dd and tar are not as fast as ghost.

11 The ghost -ib parameter can back up the boot area. Help says "the disk boot track include clone" I don't know whether it refers to the boot area in the backup partition or the main boot area.

Complete the above steps, easy Linux backup ghost.