Automatic Clone of Ubuntu systems

[Antony Gelberg]

John Schofield wrote:
> I'm looking for a tool that lets me clone and restore an entire disk  
> image from an Ubuntu box, a la Norton's Ghost. (But from what I  
> understand, Ghost isn't all that great with Linux volumes.)
> 
> The idea is that for servers, I would set them up once correctly,  clone 
> that image, and then simply do a bare-metal restore from the  cloned 
> image if necessary due to hardware failure or OS corruption.
> 
> If there's a tool you've used for this with success, I'd love to hear  
> your stories.
> 
> Thanks a bunch!

aptitude search image reveals the very handy systemimager and partimage. 
  One of these will probably do the job.