Russ Ingram wrote:
Seth Mos wrote:
It is a shame that tools Like Symantec Ghost are really slow in taking up
on different filesystems. ReiserFS or XFS are unsupported. ext2 is your
only choice for most commercial tools.
On the contrary, my friends. :-P There was a post to this list
probably a month or so ago about a linux Norton Ghost like util
that supports just about every major fs available in Linux. I
didn't actually get to try it out cuz I had just finished cloning
the drives I needed with xfsdump/xfsrestore when the message came
across but I remember it because I had needed exactly that not 2
days before the message hit the list. The link was
http://www.partimage.org. You can also always just do what I did
and pipe the output of xfsdump to xfsrestore(or do the same with
tar for that matter), too.
Russ
Hello Russ,
I was hoping to tap into your vast knowledge on XFS... :) I've looked at
www.partimage.com and it seems they don't support the bootdisk/rootdisk
method (no CD drives on my cluster nodes) on the latest version... I
like the principle of KISS (keep it simple stupid), and using partition
image when I've got xfsdump seems a bit redundant :).
I have a question or two about xfsdump, any sugestion are MUCH appreciated:
#1) How is it that xfsdump is able to dump / while it's mounted? And how
"industrial-strength" is that?
#2) Can you elaborate a bit on your method of piping xfsdump to
xfsrestore :)?
#3) Here is my "plan" for the cluster:
- after installing the "golden-node" I plan on dumping all of its
partitions /boot and / and storing the dumps on our head node
- in order to clone: using etherboot (if I can get it running) I run a
system off of NFS on my head node and xfs restore the partitions onto
the rest of the nodes (linux xfs doesn't support simultaneous
xfsrestores yet does it?)
NOTE: my nodes are head-less no == no video adapter
HOW VIABLE IS THIS?
Thank You,
Mike
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