Backup Complete Hard Drive

[Robert Holtzman]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 02:29:33PM +0400, Jozsef wrote:
> Jozsef wrote:
> > Robert Holtzman wrote:
> >> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:28:05PM +0800, kate wrote:
> >>
> >> ...........snip............
> >>
> >>>
> >>> What I mean is do a complete system back up onto a external hard drive,
> >>> erase or format the original and place back all directories and files as
> >>> it was originally.
> >>
> >> Clonezilla or mondorescue.
> >>
> >>
> 
> I use to use Clonezilla for back up but I never really tried to restore.
> Actually once I tried to restore it on my external HDD and got a lot of
> error messages and the restoring didn't go so well at all. Will try to
> see that mondorescue.

I never could get Clonezilla to work well. I only included it because
some people love it. Mondrescue worked well for me under debian lenny
but not so well with u8.04. Haven't tried it yet with u9.10.

Please post your results along with your system (and version).

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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"If you think you're getting free lunch,
 check the price of the beer"
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