The 03.07.20 at 23:20, will wrote:
That's kewl. I'll have to remember that. I just use Norton Ghost. Works Ok if you can get your hands on a reasonably priced copy. Does the same thing pretty much. I like the above though. Have to try it sometime.
Ghost is very nice. The problem is that it can not do incremental backups. My first step is an image (ghost like), in one single CD. But after installing things, it grows to several CDs, whereas my solution is only another CD - and as I don't own Northon Ghost, cheaper ;-) By the way, Ghost can copy ext2 partitions, but not reiserfs ones - at least, so I was told. There is also another program for linux that I still haven't tried, it's somewhere on my 'todo' list. Pity... my cdwriter came with a copy of Nero, I think, that could create image CDs. The "but", and a very big "BUT" is that it does absolutely no compression! My 17 Gb "C:" disk, filled to only two Gb, is copied to 24 Cds... I call that incompetence. Or maybe bussiness model :-? perhaps they think I'll buy the comercial version... I already paid the hidden price included with my writer, I'm not paying a second time. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson