System Restore

[Chris Malton]

David,
    If you can bear going non-free, I've found Norton Ghost to work well.

    Otherwise, your best bet is to write a script using "dd" to dump the 
contents of the HDD somewhere.

Chris


David Restall - System Administrator wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anybody know of an application that will let me create an image of
> a working system, burn that image to CD or DVD and then at a later date
> boot from the CD/DVD and automatically rebuild the system as it was when
> the image was taken ?
>
> I've used systemimager in the past but this isn't quite what is required
> in this situation - I can get it to do the job but there is a lot of
> faffing about.
>
> I can do the process manually, i.e. create a boot disk, create some tar
> files, create some config files and put them all onto the cd/dvd but I'm
> sure somebody somewhere must have already automated this process, I just
> can't find it - maybe its google blindness :-(
>
> TTFN
>
>
>
> D
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