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Think Open Source ghost.

Jonathan

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 17:18, Greg wrote:
> Ghost by Norton.  I have transferred many pc's that way.  It (for me) has
> been reliable and capable.  I hear that now it even does Linux also.  It can
> move partition to partition or disk to disk.  I have even used it for
> backups.
> 
> I think partd (parted ?) is the Linux open source equivalent, but I have no
> experience with it.
> 
> Greg
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
&gt; &gt; From: ale-bounces at ale.org [<a  rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ale-bounces";>mailto:ale-bounces</a> at ale.org]On Behalf Of
&gt; &gt; griffisb at bellsouth.net
&gt; &gt; Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 5:05 PM
&gt; &gt; To: ale at ale.org
&gt; &gt; Subject: [ale] Partially OT: moving apps from old to new PC's
&gt; &gt; (non-Linux)
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; Sorry to pollute the list with non-Linux stuff, but, ...
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; The info you guys gave me on backups and restoring has been very
&gt; &gt; helpful. I was able to do a full backup from my laptop to a Samba
&gt; &gt; Server, and set my son up as well. Restores - well, that's a
&gt; &gt; different story. Need to scam a usb-drive to create emergency
&gt; &gt; diskettes for my Win2K laptop and my son's WinXP laptop. Although
&gt; &gt; Mondo and Mindi looked like a VERY cool thing, and does backups
&gt; &gt; and bare-iron restores on dual-boot PC's. Think that's the next
&gt; &gt; on my list. You can burn an emerency boot CD and restore from
&gt; &gt; there. (yeah, think it's time to play Mondo and Mindi - unless
&gt; &gt; there are other suggestions).
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; Anyway - the church I go to got new PC's for the office, and
&gt; &gt; asked for help moving apps and data off the current PC's and on
&gt; &gt; to the new ones. I thought of a few ideas, based on things we
&gt; &gt; discussed on list and personal disasters ;-)
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; 1. Do a hardware and software inventory on current PCs
&gt; &gt; 2. Do a hardware inventory on each new PC
&gt; &gt; 3. Set up a Samba server
&gt; &gt;    3A. Do full backups from each PC
&gt; &gt;           or
&gt; &gt;    3B. Do partial backups of My Documents folder on each PC
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; 4. Install apps from on-site CD's (yeah, right! Couldn't locate
&gt; &gt; the original CD's and licenses last time!)
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; 5. Restore My Documents folders from Samaba server
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; Since I seriously doubt if we'll be able to locate original CD's
&gt; &gt; and licenses, the other thought is to backup from the current PCs
&gt; &gt; and restore to the new ones (if that's possible), then change
&gt; &gt; drivers to match new hardware. That's probably a bad idea
&gt; &gt; (out-dated anti-vir, unlicensed software, lots of junk from
&gt; &gt; several years of surfing).
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; If you were migrating a small office, would the first list of
&gt; &gt; actions be the best bet? Can Ghost backup a running PC and
&gt; &gt; transfer to a different PC and give you a working system?
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