How do you image a SUSE Professional 9.3 Linux box?

[Angie_1]

We are running SUSE Professional 9.3 on a system and want to make an image of it for later recovery.

Interested in a product that works just like Ghost OR like HPUX's Ignite.

I didn't see that Ghost supported this but I could be wrong. Want the entire OS duplicated and be able to recover from that image being left off exactly how the system was when it was imaged.

Anyone know?

Thanks,
Angie

[Steven E. Protter]

Ignite does not work on Linux. I've asked them to port it, but who am I anyway?

http://www.mondorescue.org

That is a product that may do the job. It does not however have the corporate resources that HP and Ignite have behind the product.

SEP

[Gopi Sekar]

You can use Ghost4Linux which is open source and obviously no company behind it.

HP has a product which can do this job, it's called as RDP and obviously I work for that ;)
You can get more information on http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/rdp.html

But unfortunately HP does not officially support SUSE 9.3

I can point you to another product by name PowerCockpit from MountainView Data inc.
http://www.mountainviewdata.com/us/index.html
which has similar imaging product.

Hope this helps,
Gopi

[xyko_1]

Hi Angie,

I've posted a thread about that some time ago.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=710186

I guess this will help you also.

If you decide to adopt this solution, don't forget to save your partition table and MBR also, this will save time and reduce errors.

regards,
Xyko

[Angie_1]

Thanks for the replies.

I looked at the various postings and links that were provided. Lots of different products. I thought the one that looked most interesting was the one that allows you to put the image to an image server instead of CD like Mondo.

Anyone have experience with this one??? - called System Imager v. 3.4.1.

http://www.systemimager.org/

Angie

[Gopi Sekar · Accepted solution]

I tried installing System Imager on my system. The difference between System Imager (or System Installation Suite) is it lacks quite bit of features if you want to manage servers. the advantage being that it is open source and is written mostly on perl.

but SystemImager is ideal if you are looking for one or two servers imaging and you don't worry about managing them and the best you get it for free.

May be of interest to you: The image taken by System imager is kept as live file system (directory structure) in your server, so any time you want to check for files and add files you can do so by just chroot to that directory.

Hope this helps,
Gopi

[Angie_1]

Thank you ... all of you... for your input on this topic.

Angie

[Angie_1]

Thanks!