TI 11 and Linux images
Is there any way to use TI 11 to image my Linux server drive which is formatted with EXT3 and XFS? I've been unable to find any documentation except a vague mention of using the sector-by-sector option. Would that work?
Sorry if this has been asked many times but I didn't have a lot of luck searching the forums for this either.
RJ

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K0LO wrote:Rich:Ext3 is a supported file system so no problems there unless you are using inode-256, which TI 11 does not support.
XFS is not a supported file system so when you create an image of the XFS partitions they will be created in sector-by-sector mode, which means that all sectors, both used and unused, will be copied to the image.
TI must save image files to either NTFS or FAT partitions, however; Linux file systems are no longer supported for file-level operations (reading and writing) in TI versions 11 and up, but imaging is supported.
K0LO wrote:Rich:TI must save image files to either NTFS or FAT partitions, however; Linux file systems are no longer supported for file-level operations (reading and writing) in TI versions 11 and up, but imaging is supported.
Mark, thanks much for your assistance. I just want to make sure I'm understanding the above correctly. I should be able to boot the Linux machine from a TI 11 boot disk and back up the hard drive using the sector-by-sector mode, but it will of necessity back up the entire 80Gb disk, even though probably only 10Gb are actually used. That's no problem. The backup must be made to a drive formatted with either FAT or NTFS, also no problem. But I'm trying to picture the restoration process in my mind and wondering if TI is going to hiccup when I try to restore the image to a new drive. I don't see how it can format the drive to read XFS if that's an unsupported file system. But I guess if it restores it sector-by-sector, that won't matter...it will by definition BE in XFS format. Hmmm...
I think I just answered my question, but I'll leave it here in hopes that someone will correct me in case I missed something obvious.
Thanks again for your response, I'll give it a shot in the morning when I'm clear-headed.
RJ
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RJ:
Your description of the restore process is correct. Think about how the Linux command dd works and you'll get the idea. If you restore all of the sectors back to a disk you have restored the formatting along with the files.
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I just wanted to follow up and say it worked perfectly. Thanks again for your assistance!
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Great! Thanks for posting your results in case someone else reads this in the future.
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