has anyone been successfull in cloning the ext3fs filesystem using Ghost or DriveImage or something else ?
I have tried DriveImage 2002 but this one does not recognize ext3fs. Ghost 7.5 and Ghost 2003 are able to clone the disk but at a very slow rate. However after the disk cloning, I cannot boot up the new disk.
Something weird during the clone is that I cannot use the same size for the partitions. Ghost resizes it a bit. After the clone operation I see GRUB but then it stops. Normally it says GRUB with some points ...
Anyone tried a disk to disk clone on a Linux with ext3fs before ?
I have only used Altiris to do software clones of ext3 , but I normally prefer to use hardware mirrors. In a server with a raid1 system drive I just pull out one disk and move it to the other server. Insert the disk and boot up to singleuser. I then rename server, delete the /etc/ssh/host_* files and go to my proper runlevel.
This only works if both servers have the same type of raidcontroller though.
I have cloned an entire Linux system using Norton Ghost. It was Red Hat 7.3 ext3 filesystem.
It is slow, but it has the advantage of exactly copying key configuration information.
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when you cloned the disk, did ghost take the exact same size for the partitions ?
Did you use special flags ? Sector by sector copying won't work since my disks aren't exactly the same size. I need native cloning.
The specialty of my linux distro is that it is SecurePlatform. That is a RedHat based hardened linux by Check Point. It is designed by them for firewall usage. I don't think however that they have enforced some sort of unclonable sectors.
