Filesystem-aware disk imaging

[Bill Mullen]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:28:28 -0400
"Ben Scott" <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:

>   Anyone here played around with disk imaging tools which are
> filesystem aware?  Like partimage[1] and Clonezilla[2]?  I'm
> especially interested in experience with FAT and NTFS partitions.
> 'nix is very well-behaved in this area, so an exact disk image often
> isn't needed anyway.  Just mount the partition and run rsync, tar, or
> just "cp -a".  But restoring a 'doze system is such a mess ("like
> kicking dead whales down the  beach") that a tool which exists outside
> the OS is really appealing to me.
> 
> [1] http://www.partimage.org/
> [2] http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/

You might also want to look into Mondo Rescue:

http://www.mondorescue.org/about.shtml

I have no first-hand experience with it, sorry. :-/

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