Best Application to Backup / Restore Entire Ubuntu System ?

[Jozsef]

Shahar Dag wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jozsef"<jzfk9 at aol.com>
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> Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 2:02 PM
> Subject: Re: Best Application to Backup / Restore Entire Ubuntu System ?
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>> On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 11:48 +0000, Steve wrote:
>>> On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 11:32:08 -0000, Jozsef<jzfk9 at aol.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 16:47 +0530, Swapnil Jain wrote:
>>>>> i use mkcdrec, its a very good tool, creates a complete bootable
>>>>> backup
>>>>> image on USB Flash disk, cdrom, dvdrom or a iso file to burn on disk.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Swapnil Jain
>>>>> Indore, India
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Did you try to restore your system from such kind of backup? And if
>>>> yes,
>>>> was it successful?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> A very good question!  How many people actually test their backups?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Steve
>>>
>>
>> It's very easy to clone your HDD or partitions with Clonezilla, for
>> example, but when you try to restore it and use it - it's not that good.
>> That's why I'm asking because if I only have a nice backup - that's only
>> half a way and it doesn't makes me feel I'm fine :)
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best,
>> Jozsef
>>
>> "Fear God, and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has
>> come..."
>> Revelation 14:7
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>
> from my experience with clonezilla, the restore process is as easy as the
> backup.
> I am using clonezilla to clone the installation of one Ubuntu computer to
> about 20 other machines.
> I boot the source machine from the clonezilla CD and create an image of the
> entire disk on the network
> I boot the target machine from the clonezilla CD and restore it from the
> image I created. If the hard disk of the target machine is larger then the
> original I re-partition it
>
> Shahar
>
>
I see. Must be my target partition was different size and that's why I 
had issues.
Will give another try to clonezilla.

-- 
Best,
Jozsef

"Fear God, and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come..."
Revelation 14:7