[Novalug] g4l - Ghost for Linux

Kenneth A. Kauffman kkauffman@headfog.com
Wed Jan 3 14:21:54 EST 2007


I use dd and netcat for similar purposes.  You can either go to/from
images, or go machine to machine if you have the pipe to handle it.  I
also believe netcat supports buffering if you want to compensate for a
slow pipe.

nc -l -p  # this listens on port
nc # this connects on specified IP/PORT

# By piping to the file system directly, we can make an image.
# create netcat listener on port 9000, redirect input to myimage.iso
nc -l -p 9000 | dd of=myimage.iso

# send the source (full drive) to the netcat listener
dd if=/dev/hda | nc 192.168.0.20 9000

# Creating a remote backup using netcat/tar
# Setup the archive and listener
tar -cvf - /mp3 | nc -l -p 9000

# Setup the grabber and extractor
netcat 192.168.0.20 9000 | tar -xvf -

> Ben Creitz wrote:
>> Has anybody used g4l for ghosting important drives containing NTFS
>> partitions?  Can anybody comment on its reliability, success/failure
>> stories re: restoring partition images, etc.?
>>
>> -Ben
>
> I've used G4L and like it a lot.  I use it to make one image
> and deploy it on many laptops and for that it works great.
> The only drawback is if I GZIP a drive, it will gzip all
> the unused space also.
> As far as file systems, I've done ext2/fat32/ntfs and have
> had no problems.
>
> Matt
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