Ghost has limited support for LVM volumes. It
clones only single-striped or non-mirrored logical
volumes with a single segment. When creating
an image, or cloning disk-to-disk Ghost operates
as though the LVM volumes are simple partitions.
Therefore Ghost, cannot recreate the LVM
volumes on the destination. These volumes are
cloned as though they were simple partitions. You
may need to manually edit the config files. Ghost
can clone or restore a single partition into an
already existing LVM volume on the destination
disk. In this case, the volume is still part of the
LVM in the operating system. With Ghost running
on Linux there is also the option of dealing with
LVM volumes via the OS Volumes feature.
LVM
Symantec Ghost fully supports ACLs.
Extended ACLs
Ghost supports journaling. It does not support
having the journal on another device, but this is
an extremely uncommon case.
Journaling
H-tree directory indexes are not cloned, but can
easily be recreated by the user after the restore
operation
H-trees/Dirindexes
There is no support for ext4 (except on a sector
by sector basis).
ext4
There is no support for Reiserfs (except on a
sector by sector basis).
Type 0 and type 1 Linux swap file systems (type
0x82) are supported.
Skip file is not supported.
Linux extended partitions (type 0x85) are partially
supported. Ghost copies file systems inside these
extended partitions, but restores them as DOS
extended partitions. This is not known to cause
problems with Linux systems after cloning.
Reiserfs
Symantec Ghost provides the following support:
■
LVM partitions are created as extended/logical partitions.
■
Symantec Ghost does not support Linux if there is no valid boot record in the
disk MBR and more than one partition on a disk is installed with LILO or GRUB.
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Supported configurations
Summary of Contents for GHOST IMAGING FOUNDATION 7.1
Page 1: ...Symantec Ghost Imaging Foundation 7 1...
Page 3: ...Symantec Corporation 20330 Stevens Creek Blvd Cupertino CA 95014 http www symantec com...
Page 78: ...Managing partitions using GDisk Support for large hard disks 78...
Page 100: ...Editing registry keys and values using GhRegEdit Using GhRegEdit 100...
Page 116: ...Using GhostCasting to create and restore images Running Ghost exe on a client computer 116...
Page 122: ...GhostCasting from the command line GhostCast Server command line options 122...
Page 130: ...GDisk disk wipe specifications Determining disk size 130...
Page 166: ...Ghost for Linux Symantec Ghost utility support 166...
Page 170: ...Configuring firewalls Symantec Ghost port configuration 170...
Page 180: ...Troubleshooting Problems running Symantec Ghost 180...