similar to: Samba, SamFS and problems with large files (backup images)

Hello all We have two very important workstations dedicated to tasks of development and investigation. At the moment we have installed a dual boot platform with CentOS 4.0 and Windows XP Proffessional SP2. In order to do backups of these machines we need to create an image with Norton Ghost 2003. We have worked with Ghost during several years with different platforms (Red Hat, White Box Linux,

Hi folks, I'd like to make a full backup up of my server, about as near to a Ghost or Acronis type of backup as is possible using programs on the server itself. What type of rysnc script can I use for it? I know Linux has some pseudo directories and files that are not part of a backup, will I have to exclude from the backup, or can rsync automatically handle them? Does rsync have option

Have two XP laptops that I am trying to get to back up to a Samba share with Norton Ghost 2003. My laptop is "gtwylptp" and my son's, a Dell 8600 with a broadcom 440x NIC, is "stu07-53". I am the user and group backing up both machines. "gtwylptp" backs up without a problem however "stu07-53" hangs as apparently the Lock file has "RDONLY"

Lars, You could try a batch file with NETDOM /Domain:MYDOMAIN /user:adminuser /password:apassword MEMBER MYCOMPUTER /JOINDOMAIN Then NETDOM /Domain:MYDOMAIN MEMBER MYCOMPUTER /JOINDOMAIN search microsoft.com for comand line join domain for more info. Bob -----Original Message----- From: Lars O. Grobe [mailto:grobe@gmx.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 7:53 AM To:

I've Found a page with interesing discussion about images backup http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-28255.html This give a "dirty" solucion for remove special thing of ext3 (Selinux remove resize_inode and ext_attr features) witch cause the error in ghost. I hope somebody help with the problem of norton ghost and clone centos 4. :) ----------- sfabkk 2005-07-11,

Hello everybody, I want to boot my HP x86 PCs with a Norton Ghost 12 boot disk image via PXE. I followed all the steps but I have still the same message and the booted computer hangs always. 0- I created the boot image. 1- A folder named tftpboot and tpftpboot\pxelinux.cfg created. 2- The pxelinux.0 copied in tftpboot folder. 3- memdisk copied in tftpboot folder. 4- the image file (norton.iso)

Hello, I'm creating a large ext3 filesystem on an LVM volume, on top of a RAID1 for storing Norton Ghost disk images. Most of the files created will be between 1 and 10 GB; there may also be occasional small files also. I'm already going to reduce the number of inodes on the filesystem. Probably limit it to 102400 or so. `mke2fs --help` reports a "-g blocks_per_group" option,

Is it at all possible to chain load to another PXE server using pxelinux? I'm wondering because we are getting ready to roll out a new dedicated server provisioning system at the datacenter where I work. In the past we've used pxelinux to network boot the Linux installations (e.g. anaconda.) We also use it to network boot to rescue mode, memtest86, etc. But we are moving to a new

Hi List. We have a Samba 3.0pre21 PDC set up here on our prim. fileserver. We use Windows 2000 SP2 on our PC clients. We install clients with system images from disk and than install applications from one central machine running Norton Ghost EE. Ghost has the functionality not only to install the software from the "console" on the ghost server, but it is also able to make the

Hello, I would like to clone a Windows XP workstation that's part of a Samba domain using Norton Ghost. In Ghost you need to create an account in the domain to be able to add your domain to the list of supported domains by the Norton Ghost console. When I try to add such an account, I get this error message: Unable to add DOMAIN to the list of supported domains, The procedure number is

The hard disk in my server/gateway started developing bad sectors and making very strange noises the other day.. anyway i got a new drive and copied over the partiton containing linux (ext3) onto the new drive using norton ghost which resized it from 500 odd Megabytes in size to 20 Gigabytes, the new drive works great but i have a few concerns since ghost knows nothing of ext3.. since the

Hi all, Just thought i would post this for some future referance for some members. I know when i first tried to install pxelinux that we can into all sorts of troubles. So for this reason (plus other training purposes) Myself and a work mate decided to document our install. You can find the instructions located here: Part 1 (Basic Install) http://www.nobluescreens.com/solutions/pxe.php

The low speed of writes with the MS-DOS, MS newtworking client has to do with the limit of MAXSENDSIZE (from TCPUTILS.INI) By default, the value is 1024, but the maximum value is 2048. If this value is not set to the same as the Samba server's SO_RCVBUF, then performence will suffer GREATLY. We had a Windows system hosting Norton Ghost images, but it took a dive, and our company has

Hello, I want to backup my PE2800 on tape but I'm not sure how to do this. My PE2800 has a RAID5 setup with 2 72GB SCSI disks and a Seagate DAT-2 72GB internal tape-streamer and I'm running Centos 4.3 with the latest yum updates. I'm not sure if this tape-streamer is recognised by the OS properly because it doesn't show up along with my DVD/floppy I also recieved with the

I'm looking for something (ideally) in the CentOS repo that lets me easily take and restore snapshots of my system while powered on (similar to how later versions of Norton Ghost work). Is LVM my best bet to do this? (I hate to admit this, but up to this point when I've been in a pinch, I've just powered the box down on off hours and then imaged it via some sort of live cd)

Madison, That sounds like a really nice backup program. I'd like to try your Beta out if I could. I've use rsync regularly and it would be great to have a front end. Thanks. Thom

We've recently migrated my entire University including faculty and staff from Novell to Samba. There's typically 700+ clients connected to the samba server at any given time and thus far there are about 400GB of client's files on the server. Basically every Microsoft Windows user generated file (Word, Excel, whatever) of the entire University gets stored on my Samba server. Obviously

Hello, We use Norton Ghost, running in a PXE booted DOS, to handle Windows XP images. The images are stored on a samba share on our CentOS 6 server. This has worked without any problems for years. After kernel 2.6.32-279* it has stopped working. The symptom is that if I boot in DOS, and do: net use x: \\myserver\ghostimages dir x: I get an infinite loop where the first file name is listed

Hello, I saw your post on booting a Norton Ghost image via pxe, syslinux, memdisk. I would like to how if you were able to do it? And also how you did it? I tried converting to .img to no use Thank?s Marcus Nascimento Ger?nte de TI Mikropar Ind. e Com. Ltda (11) 4662-9100

I have a few (~20) workstations dual booted with GNU/Linux and Windows XP. When configuration changes on these systems (about once a month) I deploy a full disk image with UDPcast [1]. Unlike recent versions of Norton Ghost, UDPcast have no post-deploy option to change the machine name and/or trust account. Most of the time those systems are running on GNU/Linux and only occasionally will two