System or HD imaging

[Charles Marcus]

Damien Hull, on 7/20/2007 4:12 PM, said the following:
> Is there a way to image an Ubuntu system?
> 
> I'm looking for something like Ghost on Windows ( sorry for the bad word 
> ). I tried using Mondo ( mondo rescue ) but it's broken.

If it doesn't have to be free, I have been using BootitNG (BING) for a 
long time, and it works extremely well:

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html

and is very affordable ($35 for BING only, $50 for all of his programs):

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/purchase.html

It only supports ext2, ext3 and reiserfs natively, but it will do a 
bit-level image, so will image anything, and yes, you can create a 
bootable restore CD or DVD with it.

Best money I ever spent on s/w... there is even an application called 
Image for Windows that will Image a RUNNING windows system - and I think 
the next version will support diffed images...

> Here's what I would like it to do:
> 
>    1. Backup to CD / DVD
>          1. more then 1 if needed
>    2. Boot from the CD / DVD
>    3. Restore a working system
>    4. Maybe restore to a drive of a different size
> 
> Some of the imaging software I've looked at require a server side setup. 
> I don't want that.

Hmmm.. if you want to be able to image a running linux system remotely, 
I don't think BING will do that... sorry if I wasted your bandwidth...