Proper backup and restore -- is there a way?

[Liam Proven]

On 26 January 2012 05:39, Marcus Reid <marcus at blazingdot.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to find out the best way to make backups of an Ubuntu
> machine that allows me to restore to bare metal, boot, and go home.
> As an example of what I'm looking for, here is how I do it in FreeBSD
> and Solaris:

I cannot really advise directly - I only do offline backups with tools
such as Clonezilla, G4L, fsarchiver & partclone - but "dump" is
available in Linux and I've used it. If it is something you're used
to, it *is* an option.

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