Linux equivalent of Norton Ghost?

[Rick Stevens]

On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 10:48 +0100, Stuart Sears wrote:
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> Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> > I'd like to create a drive image so when I totally mess things up (or the
> > hard drive crashes), I can quickly get a working system again (without
> > doing a reinstall and modifying a hundred config files). I THOUGHT NG
> > worked with Linux file systems, but it can't seem to find the drive on my
> > AMD64 laptop running FC4. What I'd like to do is have something on a
> > bootable CD that can create an image of the hard drive(s) on a USB drive
> > and restore that image to the hard drive(s). Does such a utility exist?
> 
> absolutely.
> 
> partimage (probably my tool of choice)
> www.partimage.org

Works well.

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> ghost4linux (never used it)
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l

Very good program.

> mondorescue (full-on backup and recovery for whole systems)
> http://www.modorescue.org

Also works.

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> g4u (never used that either)
> http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

I've not used it, either.

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> I am also a huge fan of this:
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> systemrescuecd
> http://www.sysresccd.org
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> which provides a lot of recovery tools (including partimage) on a simple
> bootable CD

Another one of those is "Recovery Is Possible" (RIP) 
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/
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