Subject: Re: backup up, ghosting a Winxp machine
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Fri Oct 03 2003 - 15:54:36 AKDT
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 15:07, Jamie Hushower wrote:
>
> This may not help you, but perhaps someone can take it a bit further or even
> offer me some suggestions...
>
> I have not had luck doing what you desire- initiating the backup from a
> Linux computer with the Windows computer acting as the remote host. I do the
> reverse. However, the issue I have run into when backing up entire drives is
> a file size limitation on the ext3 file system. I have several old Win95
> computers with 1.2GB drives that I backup by booting Rescue Linux, Knoppix,
> or some other bootable CD distribution with SMB tools. Once booted, I mount
> a remote Linux share (or any SMB share for that matter) to hold the backup
> image. I then type "cat /dev/hda | gzip -c > /mnt/file.iso" where the hda is
> whatever drive I am backing up and /mnt is where the remote SMB share is
> mounted. That works great for data that can be compressed down to 2GB or
> less, but anything larger causes a filesystem error. That is obviously a
> problem on a WinXP box with a 40GB hard drive with a single partition. Does
> anyone know of a way to increase the allowable file size on ext3? Any way to
> reverse that process to meet Jim's needs?
>
> P.S. To restore the image, boot Knoppix, mount the remote SMB share and type
> "cat /mnt/file.iso | gunzip > /dev/hda". Incidentally, as this can be done
> to partitions as well as entire drives, I insure that my Linux servers have
> root partitions of less than 2GB and back them up this way.
>
> -Jamie
> _____________________________________
> Jamie Hushower
> Computer Consultant
> Rent-A-Geek
> 223-9136
AFAIK there is no file size limit with ext3. There was with the 2.2
kernel but with a 2.4 kernel there is not a 2gb limit. I routinely do
~5gb files but nothing larger. Must another issue, which I don't know
the answer to :)
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