James, I use Drive Image 5.0 (and 4 too actually). They both understand Linux partition types, can compress the image on the fly and so far no problems. Ghost is also an option and is preferred by others. It's just what you're comfortable with I `spose :-) I like to have a complete image though - not just / (root). That way I can rebuild the disk after a total failure. If the image is less than 700MB then burn it to a CD for safekeeping. If it's larger then use a network boot disk to start the machine and run Drive Image / Ghost from a networked-mounted share and create or restore the image there. To reduce the size of the filesystem (and therefore the resulting image) I do the following: Create an image of the whole disk first! ... then, For 8.0 (ReiserFS) to resize root partition to 500MB: boot to Suse 8 CD rescue system login as root resize_reiserfs -s 500M /dev/hda3 Then use "fdisk /dev/hda" to delete /dev/hda3. Then recreate it specifying size as +500M Reboot If you're using extfs instead then just use resize_e2fs instead of resize_reiserfs. Doddle. Damian James.Rocks@equant.com wrote:
Hi,
I want to create an image of my Linux system (much like I use Norton Ghost to create a basic image of my Windows system) partially to insure against problems, partially so I can (occasionally) trash it and try something else?
Can ghost do this, if not what can? Also, to do it faster, I tend to copy a whole partition to another one (quicker than across my network) but Linux (at least on my system) is composed of three partitions: boot, swap & '/' so I guess have to do a whole disk image which means I can't (easily) do that to a local disk ... any ideas?
James
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