Filesystem-aware disk imaging

[Bill Freeman]

Bill Mullen writes:
 > 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. :-/

I have.  It's a fine tool - for *nix filesystems.  Last time I read
the rhetoric, they were sort of proud and insistent about not
supporting 'doz.  (It uses afio internally, which is better than tar
for non-UFS-like systems, but still expects a *nix like attribute
structure.)

Bill