> Is there a way to clone or ghost a Linux hard drive??
>
> Doug VE5DA
>

I'd recommend dar - like tar but designed from scratch to back up to disk
(CD or DVD) rather than tape. It allows directories to be easily excluded
(eg. /proc and /sys) and there are GUIs available such as kdar for KDE.
The archives created can be compressed with gzip or bzip2 to save space
(but it takes a LOT longer to so the backup then). It, like tar, maintains
soft/hard links, ownership and permissions.

I usually use the command line for backup but if I only want to restore a
couple of files then kdar allows me to pull whatever files I like from the
archive without all the rest.

-- 
Robin Gilks


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