Linux equivalent of Norton Ghost?

[Maxim Vexler]

On 6/25/06, Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> 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.

Won't copy boot sector.

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

Basically partimage on a bootcd.

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

Never tried it, looks very good.

>
> >
> > g4u (never used that either)
> > http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/
>
> I've not used it, either.
>

BSD based, simplistic and works great.
Uses ftp to store the image file of the hd.

> >
> > I am also a huge fan of this:
> >
> > systemrescuecd
> > http://www.sysresccd.org
> >
> > 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/

Interesting, thank you for the tip.

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