Bernhard Ott wrote:

> as Andreas said before bare metal restore is not the thing you can do 
> best with backuppc, so many folks around here use backuppc for data and 
> other products for imaging system-partitions.
> I use partimage for cloning windows hosts (careful: it doesn't work on 
> amd64 platform, http://www.partimage.org/),
> if you want to restore a bunch of hosts you should have a look at
> http://www.clonezilla.org/.

When you are looking at clonezilla, it may seem very complicated since 
some of the documentation is intertwined with drbl, a server-based 
network booting system.  If you aren't mass-cloning, look at the 
clonezilla-live section instead.  This is a bootable CD image or a 
system you can put on a usb drive, that boots into a menu where you can 
connect to a network server via nfs, samba, or ssh or use local storage, 
then it will do a whole-disk or partition save or restore.  It knows 
enough about most windows and Linux filesystems to only save the used 
space in the image and with the whole disk option it will reproduce the 
partitioning and filesystems for you.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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