What backup software?

[Bart Silverstrim]

Chris Mohler wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Christian <christian08 at runbox.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I am looking for a disk backup software that can backup any partition to
>> an image and restore it at a later time.
>> What backup software would you recommend?
>>  Many thanks,
>> Christian
> 
> I've always just used dd:
> 
> dd if=/dev/sdaX of=/path/to/file.img
> 
> will copy from partition to image, where "X" is a partition number on
> sda.  Then:
> 
> dd if=/path/to/file.img of=/dev/sdaX
> 
> will copy from the image to partition -  the target partition should
> be the same size as the original...
> 
> There's probably a GUI out there that would do this... anyone?

I use partimage, which I think uses DD in the background for part of the 
process. Plus it compresses the image, while dd won't unless you pipe 
through a compressor.

It's a console application but it is graphical (using ncurses? I don't 
know, but you'd get the idea)...graphical but navigated via keyboard.