Virtual Machine and EXT4 support

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Hello.

I have a Win 7 32 bit system with VMware Player 3.1.4 wich runs a Ubuntu 11.04 32 bit virtual environment.
Ubuntu is using EXT4 filesystem.

So the question is:
Will Ghost 15.0 support full backup/restore of my system in this case? Because I think Ghost 15.0 only supports EXT3, but since it’s running on a VM with EXT4, I’m just not sure.
Can someone confirm this please?

Thank you

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Binary-Synapse wrote:
Hello.

I have a Win 7 32 bit system with VMware Player 3.1.4 wich runs a Ubuntu 11.04 32 bit virtual environment.
Ubuntu is using *EXT4* filesystem.

So the question is:
Will Ghost 15.0 support full backup/restore of my system in this case? Because I think Ghost 15.0 only supports EXT3, but since it's running on a VM with EXT4, I'm just not sure.
Can someone confirm this please?

Thank you

You are running Ghost on Windows 7, right. You are running Ubuntu in a Virtual machine. The EXT4 file system resides inside of a .vmdk file. Ghost (and Windows) only see the .vmdk file, not the EXT4 filesystem. Ghost should back the .vmdk file up just fine. Open one of the v2i files and make sure the .vmdk files are there.

 

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OK

Thank you Red

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If you wanted to use the Ghost disk to "cold image" the VM from the "inside" then it does not support that file system.

But keep in mind that your really not getting the benifits of EXT4 in the first place because it's a virtual system.

Your real limitiations are imposed by the Windows and NTFS size limits and it's impossible to exceed those by virtulizing a "better" file format within that.

 

So next time you setup a VM you may want to stick with EXT3 or even 2.

 

Dave