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Sounds like you are looking for something similar to radmind:
<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/";>http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/</a>

I've wanted to try this out on our Mac carts and even some testing linux
boxes just to see how well it would work.  I just haven't had the time
to tinker with it, having to deal with MS crap day in and day out.

bnm

&gt; -----Original Message-----
&gt; From: ale-bounces at ale.org [<a  rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ale-bounces";>mailto:ale-bounces</a> at ale.org] On 
&gt; Behalf Of James P. Kinney III
&gt; Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 5:46 PM
&gt; To: cfowler at outpostsentinel.com; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
&gt; Subject: Re: [ale] Ghost for Linux
&gt; 
&gt; The absolute BEST tool I've ever seen for restoring systems 
&gt; to pristine state was only for the Mac. It was called 
&gt; Assimilator. I kept 25+ Macs with individual personalities 
&gt; and network settings identical otherwise.
&gt; The app would run on a reboot and delete extra files and add 
&gt; missing files and keep the network setup as per the central database. 
&gt; 
&gt; I have been tinkering (on the backburner) with building a 
&gt; similar system using rsync for Linux/Window$. The goal is/was 
&gt; to use it for a regular backup process for an office full of 
&gt; similarly configured machines. Each machine would have a 
&gt; hardlink to the master copy file unless the local copy had 
&gt; changed. Thus the &quot;image&quot; would be a pile of hardlinks and 
&gt; pile of differences files. This would chop loads off the 
&gt; storage space needed for full backups of each machine. A 
&gt; restore would be a boot floppy that calls a reversed rsync 
&gt; from the main server.
&gt; 
&gt; It is (still) a pipe dream...not even vaporware...more like 
&gt; fantasyware...
&gt; 
&gt; On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 15:50, Christopher Fowler wrote:
&gt; &gt; dd if=/dev/&lt;disk&gt; of=/mnt/usb/disk.img
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; Want compression?
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; dd if=/dev/&lt;disk&gt; | bzip2 -c9 | dd of=/mnt/usb/disk.img
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 15:57, Tom &amp; JaVonn wrote:
&gt; &gt; &gt; 	
&gt; &gt; &gt; Anyone used g4l ?
&gt; &gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; &gt; Looking for a cheap or free way for clients to make 
&gt; images of their hard drive to external USB drives, even if 
&gt; they're NTFS format.
&gt; &gt; &gt; 
&gt; &gt; &gt; Thanks,
&gt; &gt; &gt; Tom
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