disk imager

[sturge24]

Completely off topic, I know, but I'd like some advice from the veteran linux users. What, if any, disk imaging software (i.e. Ghost or True Image) do you like for ext3fs? Surely there are better options than those created for Windows...

[BlueAdept]

I just tar-bz the directories I want and burn it to a dvd from a bash script I made.

There are a bunch of backup options for linux at sourceforge.

http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&type_of_search=soft&words=disk+imaging+linux

[Cryonic]

Ghost isn't really a Windows program as you can use it right from the CD they provide. Of course you can also install it onto windows and, IIRC, it has some automated features for imaging a system out to a network drive.

Tar-gz or Tar-bz2 are another way to do it. So is dd if you want a true raw image of the filesystem. Or maybe even System Imager.

[BlueAdept]

Ghost isn't really a Windows program as you can use it right from the CD they provide.

At work I use Acronis, I feel it works better than Ghost and also runs from the CD.

I have never tried it to back up a linux partition. From what I remember it does say it works on linux (booting from the CD).

[sturge24]

I found my solution... http://ping.windowsdream.com/

It's called PING (PING is not Ghost)

It works just as you'd expect any disk imaging software to do. It can read and write any FS you can think of, both locally and on the LAN. It can even be used too network boot other computers on the LAN. It is, of course, Linux based, and boots from a CD or DVD.

Perfect!

[CeleSEQ]

My personal favorite for arbitrary disk cloning (doesn't matter what OS/filesystem) is http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/

If I'm working with a running linux box I'd just use dd.