Ghosting a linux hard drive

[DEL 707]

I know very little about linux or what format it uses.

The problem I have is that a game system we use at work which runs on a linux system has become corrupt, the quickest and easiest solution I have to the problem is to ghost the hard drive from good working spare machine.

I tried to use symantec ghost to do the job but it won't see the hard drives, is there another program I can use to copy the hard drive?

 

[zetec452]

In my fairly limited experince with linux its generally best to tar the whole of the hard disk rather than ghost. I've tried ghosting Linux in the past and it didn't work.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem

 

[DEL 707]

Is there anyway to do this using a windows machine?

Unfortunatly, the games machines only had 1 IDE connection and don't let me have access to any linux controls.

 

[deano]

both hardrives in a machine and boot from a live cd then use dd, doubly make sure you know which drive is which!!! to clone the first idre drive to the second ide drive would be:-

dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb

take a while but works.

Cheers
Deano

[edit] noticed only 1 ide, you don't need to use the machine that it's running in to use dd any machine will do that a linux live cd can boot on [/edit]

 

[DEL 707]

What's a live CD?

 

[BillytheImpaler]

A Live CD is a CD from which you boot and it brings up a full working OS without the need to install to hard disk. Live CDs are very useful for system analysis and recovery because you can use the system without ever needing to use a hard disk.

EDIT: Wikipedia knoweth all http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveCD