Backups allowing individual file restoration

[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 20:21 -0500, Gerry Doris wrote:
> I'm looking for an application that will create an image of a full Fedora 
> drive that can be used for either a bare metal restore or can be used to 
> restore individual directories or files.  I use Partition Image for this for 
> my Window boxes.
> 
> I've tried using Partimage.  It's a great program but it only creates images 
> of complete partitions and can only restore the complete partition...no 
> directory or file access.  It looks like G4U and G4L actually use Partimage 
> so I assume they work the same.
> 
> I don't want to use either CD's or DVD's.  I would like to backup/restore 
> either to another hard drive on the system being backed up or across my 
> network to a server.
> 
> Any reommendations would be appreciated.
> 
> 
Have you looked at mondorescue? http://www.mondorescue.org/

Others may recommend something different, but it works well for me.

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