On Wed, 5 May 2004 05:23 am, Michael Ferguson wrote:

Part of my backup solution for my Suse Linux 9.0 machine is to take disk images of the system. I was wondering if anyone can suggest anyone can suggest any good imaging software for linux that works with Suse (I guess I'm asking "that works with ReiserFS).

So far I've found Partimage (www.partimage.org). Any others you can suggest?

Thanks,

Mike

I suggest you have a look at Mondo. It is not a disk imaging solution but I believe it will provide you with a much better and more versatile solution. http://mondo.30below.com/index.html What is Mondo? Mondo is reliable. It backs up your GNU/Linux server or workstation to tape, CD-R, CD-RW, NFS or hard disk partition. In the event of catastrophic data loss, you will be able to restore all of your data [or as much as you want], from bare metal if necessary. Mondo is in use by Lockheed-Martin, Nortel Networks, Siemens, HP (US and France), IBM, NASA's JPL, dozens of smaller companies, and tens of thousands of users. Mondo is comprehensive. Mondo supports LVM, RAID, ext2, ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS, VFAT, and can support additional filesystems easily: just e-mail the mailing list with your request. It supports adjustments in disk geometry, including migration from non-RAID to RAID. Mondo runs on all major Linux distributions and is getting better all the time. You may even use it to backup non-Linux partitions, such as NTFS. -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------

for a perfect image there is dd which is how I create ISO of legacy which has no drivers for CDRW. If the file is to large there is csplit. If your planning data recovery I beleive you can use dd if=/dev/hdx naming the whole drive a,b,c,d to copy all partitions etc. Mondo Rescue if its just backup. CWSIV On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 12:23, Michael Ferguson wrote:

Part of my backup solution for my Suse Linux 9.0 machine is to take disk images of the system. I was wondering if anyone can suggest anyone can suggest any good imaging software for linux that works with Suse (I guess I'm asking "that works with ReiserFS).

Ideally I'd like something similar to what I have for my Windows machine, namely Acronis TrueImage or Powerquest's DiskImage. Both those packages can take a disk image of a running system without user interuption. ie. no need to run off of a bootable CD or in DOS mode or anything. Has anyone found something similar for linux?

So far I've found Partimage (www.partimage.org). Any others you can suggest?

Thanks,

Mike