Andrew Cook wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> Are there known changes in the ext3 partition format or boot sector 
> format, particularly with grub, between Scientific Linux 3.08(i386) and 
> 4.4(x86_64)?
> 
> Most of my boxes are running SL3.08 (i386), but a few new computers are 
> set up with SL4.4 (x86_64).  We like to use Norton Ghost to make 
> complete system image backups.  What we have found is that while it 
> works fine with SL3.08 machines, the new boxes fail with some sort of 
> hard drive read errors.  I have tried a few different hard drives to 
> eliminate a hardware problem, and have even removed the disks and put 
> them in the older computers where Ghost is known to work, but get the 
> same errors in the same places.
> 
> It looks like something has changed in the drive formatting that Ghost 
> does not know how to handle.  Perhaps the difference might be attributed 
> to the i386 / x86_64 difference?
> 
> Can some recommend other imaging tools that are similar to Ghost in 
> function that work with more recent Linux systems?  In a perfect world, 
> I'd like something that writes a compressed image to bootable DVD, with 
> software to restore the image to a different drive.  I'd prefer to avoid 
> tools that store images across a network, but stick to those that can 
> directly burn to DVD.  Being able to resize partitions during the 
> restore is a plus.


Acronis TrueImage perhaps. They provide a test version so as to check how it works.