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So simple and I couldn't think of it
lol

thx

This evening we had a black out after a short thunderstorm and I wonder if there is a way to 'ifup' a NIC after that? I do have 'ONBOOT=yes' but when the power was up my ISP didn't have their servers up and running totally. I need something that can 'ifup' a NIC if it ain't up after a start/restart,...

Happy IPv6 Day?
Have they started using that for real now?

I've heard that they are testing it world wide but no more then that.
Think I better start looking into testing/start using that too then

I took a look at it and added that package to the slax boot USB. Sure worked, too bad the ntfs partitions is just a experimental and might not work. also had to use 'dd' to take out the MBR since partimage is as the name of it, just for partitions. I used -z1 as compression (gzip) the fastest one bu...

I'll take a look at this, thx
and as it can be run in batch mode that look good

Right here on my server I only have /proc/acpi/battery/ and no other files/dir's under that. You sure are smart :) didn't think of the battery thing, no WorkStation use that :) I'll check that on my laptop at work and see what that says. Hopefully I can use that for the scripting. This all has to do...

Have no idea what you mean by a 'system level' backup? I need something to be able to "ghost" the entire disk(or partition) and later restore it and if it has a bootable partition, restore that boot thing too. 'tar' for me is a FILE copying thing, not a copier of everything like the boot r...

Is there a "general" way to see if a machine is a laptop or a workstation? In my case it's all machines from DELL, but if there is a more general way to see this I'd like to know. I've tried cat /proc/cpuinfo but that doesn't say anything about a "mobile" CPU. Someone wrote somew...

btw... the destination disk just got full and the image was over 30G but the source disk has a usage of 4.0G
how come this happens? does it backup the empty space too?
a "ghost" image of the same is about 2 to 2,5G

Are now trying this and with this command:

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dd if=/dev/sda bs=20480000 ibs=65535 obs=65535 conv=noerror | gzip > /mnt/test/speed.test.image.gz


This has now been working for about an hour and are still are.
Is there something wrong with the command I'm using?

driving?... and still happens to answer a post... lol you shouldn't do that, you naughty boy :P no need for a ghost like one, as long as it is for Linux and it can be used by command line arguments since this is gonna be used in a script, in an auto booting and after that the OS' script will take ov...

I gotta try the compress thing too I guess, otherwise it might take a longer time then using Ghost and I want them to use 'dd' since it is Linux
and thx for the answer, once again I didn't think this through lol

:oops: didn't think of that :P The output is a USB HDD and always the SAME disk. I didn't gzip the source file from 'dd' but I always compress the data in Ghost. Do you think that will increase the speed sending the data to the USB HDD? ...although it'll take time to gzip it up in the source PC. But...

I'm starting to use some small Linux apps at work :) and instead of getting lots of licenses for 'Ghost' I said why not try 'dd'. I tried to "copy" an 8.2G USB-stick and that took 437 seconds. The speed of Ghost 8 for a 120G SATA HDD take about 10-12 minutes. I've tried changing the values...

As usual you are correct. I didn't think of this UUID since the webserver that also (still) uses F12 uses UUID and I see that in the 'df -h' but I don't see that in 'df -h' on this server and that made me not to think of it. I changed to the correct UUID in fstab and grub.conf and it started OK. MAN...