fedora core 3 and ghost

Wong Kwok-hon kwokhon at gmail.com
Wed Nov 17 17:26:49 UTC 2004


On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 02:36:34 +1000, Michael D. Setzer II
<mikes at kuentos.guam.net> wrote:
> I have ghost 2003, and it crashed on the LVM drives, but I was able
> to use G4U to create an image file. Did a full install of FC3 on a
> clean 80GB drive, and did a g4u. Created a 14GB image file. Then I
> used the option to copy NULLs to all the free space on the drive,
> and redid the image file, and it was only 2.5GB.  Just do a google
> search for G4U, and it is usually the very first hits. Note: This
> doesn't work well when going to a smaller drive, but same size and
> larger seem to work fine. Even did it with one that was a little
> smaller, and after running fsck after a shutdown -r -F now seemed
> to fix the error message.
> 
> On 17 Nov 2004 at 10:26, Carrie Knox wrote:
> 
> Date sent:              Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:26:31 -0600
> From:                   Carrie Knox <knox at sgi.com>
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> Subject:                fedora core 3 and ghost
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> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm wondering if anyone has been able to successfully create a Symantec
> > or Norton ghost image of an FC2 or FC3 installed system.
> >
> > In the past I have been able to create compressed ghost images of
> > various RedHat 9 and RedHat9/Win2K dualboot systems OK.    After
> > installing Fedora Core 2 (and now Core 3),  I am unable to create a
> > compressed Ghost image.  I get this Ghost error "Application error
> > 29004"  "Read sector failure, result=1, drive=0, sectors -456237413 to
> > -456237411".   This is not a failed device issue.  I've received this
> > exact same error on several Fedora installed hardware platforms.  The
> > disk type doesn't seem to matter.   I am able to obtain a block by block
> > copy of the disk, but I really need the compressed ghost image that can
> > be reloaded onto a variety of disk sizes.
> >
> > I'm using the GRUB bootloader and ext3 filesystems with the bootloader
> > located in the MBR.  I've reverted to LILO as the boot loader with no
> > success... still get the ghost sector read error.
> >
> > Initially, I was running Symantec Ghost 8.0, but have updated to
> > Symantec Ghost 8.2.0.1117 after contacting Symantec for assistance.
> > I've tried a variety of ghost options (-fni, -ffx,-bfc, -ib, -fdsz
> > -fdsp, -ffs, -fns, -fnu, -or).  Ghost -ia and -id both worked.
> >
> > Symantec support's final response was... "In regards to your issue with
> > Ghost 8.2.0.1117 when cloning Fedora EXT3 systems...
> > One would expect that cloning an EXT3 file system would be just that
> > simple. However, it appears that there might be something different when
> > using Fedora, perhaps something to do with the partition structure. We
> > suggest you continue to try the switches   -IA -IB -FRO or -BFC as a
> > workaround. You can include compression with any of these switches. The
> > bottom line is that Fedora is currently not supported."
> >
> > Has anyone had Ghost success with FC3?   Any ideas on what might be
> > causing the "sector read" error during image creation?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Carrie

Did G4U have compress function ?
Because I also failed to backup using ghost 8.0 So no tool can use to backup...

Thanks...




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