Can you suggest the best ways to a root file system backup so that, in case I can use it for bare metal recovery.
Partimage http://partimage.org/ let's you backup partitions as file images. This along with a backup of MBR let's you restore a linux completely from backup. I have done it twice for replacing hard disks and it works very well.
Only downside is that you cannot backup live, ie not the mounted partitions, you have to power down the machine and use knoppix to backup over network.
raj
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