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Ghost for Unix (G4U) 2.3


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Ghost for Unix (G4U)

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Download Ghost for Unix (G4U)
G4U is an operating systems independent application that can be used for disk cloning. It boots either of disks or LiveCD - and then allows you to copy all of the content from a harddisk to a remote server or other local disk or partition. Mainly built for distributing similar images across a network of computers, but can be used for backup purposes as well.

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Ghost for Unix (G4U) news feed

Announcing g4u v2.5
After an extended time for beta testing, I'm pushing out g4u V2.5 now, with no functional changes between 2.5beta1 and the final release. Of course full release testing was done on the final...
NetBSD vs. disk transfer speeds vs. BIOS settings
A few days ago, Brian Hoard made an interesting finding about performance of g4u, a NetBSD/i386-based disk cloning system. Citing from Brians mail: ``First, my problem was I had just...
g4u 2.5beta1 supports handling of partition tables and bad disk sectors
After some absence (job-related) and technical problems (building of NetBSD failing for me from Mac OS X), I'm very happy to release a beta version of g4u with some long-overdue changes....
Netbooting g4u via PXE
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