You might look into the backup utility that comes with windows. start -> accessories -> system tools
I don't know that you can do everything you are wanting to with it, but if it will work, you won't have to spend any more money.
NTBackup is your basic filewise backup program. You will not be able to do a bare metal recovery from it. It works pretty well (except in W2K3 Small Business Server, with tape, where it seems to have trouble finding the backup hardware a good percentage of the time), and it's usually my choice for backing up Windows. Though, my actual choice is not to run RedmondOS at all.
Retrospect
I've worked with Retrospect in the past, full server versions for both Mac and PC. Retrospect (admitedly not the latest versions) strikes me as the most obtusely funky backup software I've ever worked with. Very basic tasks are done in very odd ways, and some things I could never make work properly. I just hope I never have to recover anything using it.
Give me tar invoked from a script, scheduled as a cron job, any day.
You might look into the backup utility that comes with windows. start -> accessories -> system tools
I don't know that you can do everything you are wanting to with it, but if it will work, you won't have to spend any more money.
NTBackup is your basic filewise backup program. You will not be able to do a bare metal recovery from it. It works pretty well (except in W2K3 Small Business Server, with tape, where it seems to have trouble finding the backup hardware a good percentage of the time), and it's usually my choice for backing up Windows. Though, my actual choice is not to run RedmondOS at all.
Retrospect
I've worked with Retrospect in the past, full server versions for both Mac and PC. Retrospect (admitedly not the latest versions) strikes me as the most obtusely funky backup software I've ever worked with. Very basic tasks are done in very odd ways, and some things I could never make work properly. I just hope I never have to recover anything using it.
Give me tar invoked from a script, scheduled as a cron job, any day.
What do you recommend for cloning Linux drives and partions?
What do you recommend for cloning Linux drives and partions?
cp
have found cp, (actually scp in this case), and dd less htan helpful: what I want to do is "clone" a drive installed with RedHat Enterprise release 4 update 4. Using "dd" from a resue disc, the cloning fails if the source drive formats out to be slightly larger than the destination drive - plus it takes hours. We used to use Ghost, but the newer machines, (Dell Presicion 670s, replacing Dell 650's) have SATA drives that the versions of Ghost I have access to can't handle. Plus the Grub boot loader to allow multibooting complicates things.
dd was a somewhat flippant suggestion. dump might work as well. But -- were you copying from partition to partition, or device to device (hda to hdb, or hda1 to hdb1)?
scp. Were you copying across a network? I can't think of any good reason to use scp on a single machine.
(BTW, there's a really nifty trick in http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxsvrhack/index.html Oreilly's Linux Server Hacks book, for running tar across an ssh connection. For me that one trick was worth the price of the book.)
Don't know what version you're using. I've used a not that new version of Ghost from a DOS boot with SATA drives, and had it work fine. If I had any doubts as to Ghost's ability to deal with Linux file systems, I'd do a sector by sector copy. I know partition magic can resize ext2 with no problem.