on Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:38:39PM -0700, Carla Schroder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wednesday 17 September 2003 8:57 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:33:32PM +0200, Jasper Metselaar > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a Debian testing system and would like to make a backup > > > (image) of it, so I can easily restore the system when I've > > > messed things up.I searched through the list archives, but the > > > messages I found are rather old.What's currently the best way > > > to make an image of a debian system? > > My fave backup method is using Star and rsync, and backing up to > another hard drive. It's fast and easy, and hard drives are so > cheap you can have all the redundancy you want for not a lot of > money. > If you're thinking of creating something like a Norton Ghost image, I > don't know if there is a Linux equivalent.
I just found partimage (http://www.partimage.org). I think I'll give that one a try. I want to be able to do a full system restore in a few minutes, so this might suit my needs. Therefore I was looking for a disk dump utility.For normal/regular backup I use a tar script (something similar to the script of Karsten). - Jasper -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]