I have found PBA to be simple and useful.  After using it for some time, 
I even set up the client to PXE boot off the network.

http://canned-os.blogspot.com/2006/12/personal-backup-appliance-getting.html

G

Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.
> 

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