Making ISO Image

[brill01]

Hey!

I would like to make a backup image of the OS so just in case the HD fails ( god forbid ) then I can open the live cd and restore the image and im backonline. I have a extra HD thats a backup so I can store it on there how would I do this ?

Thanks for your help.

[bigtomrodney]

Probably wouldn't be making an iso image in this case. If you want to I think Symantec Ghost will let you image an ext3 partition now. It's a good piece of software. It will compress the image down to a gig or two if you're not "ghosting" the user data partitions.

There are a few open source image projects on Sourceforge, one that sprang to mind is Kasper, but I think it's still alpha. Try Partition image, looks good bu I haven't used it myself -
partimage

Just reading up on it and Ghost does not support ReiserFS as such, but will be able to clone the entire disk as a disk, but will not distinguish or interpret the partitions itself.

[brill01]

Thanks for your kind help.

[variant]

native linux software is perfect for the task of backing your system up. if you want to create a liveCD of your system then take a look at catalyst but its not for newbies!

[loft306]

catalyst >>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst/