what is best to make a image of a backup

[glda19]

Hi

What is best to make a image or a backup.
Whit what for program.
By a image form what partion do i have to make a image.
By backup what directory to backup.

so that when by linux is corrupt i can do a reinstall.

[Dave-Oregon]

Hi,

I use Clonezilla... Both on Windows, and Linux. Works like a champ

Dave

[oz]

Clonezilla and PartImage are both very popular choices for creating system images.

Mondo Rescue is supposed to be good as well, but I've never tried it.

[devils casper]

I am using PartImage for last 2 years. No problem yet. I have read a lot of good reviews of Clonezilla and I am going to give it a try very soon.

[handydan918]

Hi

What is best to make a image or a backup.
Whit what for program.
By a image form what partion do i have to make a image.
By backup what directory to backup.

so that when by linux is corrupt i can do a reinstall.

The distro I use (Mepis) only takes about 10-15 minutes to install, so I never worry about it. With a few package management commands, I can do a full reinstall, including any software I added, in well under half an hour...

[masam]

clonezilla has an awesome range of tools available.
you can backup to a local drive, to an external(USB) thumb/hard drive, or to a network share(very important if you need to recover it as well!!!)

you need to pay attention to the screen and read it well. even with alot of experience, i sometimes have to reboot clonezilla and start over to get it right(kicks self in head...ugghhhh)

if you are cloning partitions, i probably wouldnt bother with backing up your swap drive...nothing of much use there!

one thing to know(this will save time/headaches in the future...trust me) if you use clonzilla, you cant clone to a SMALLER hard drive. it has to be equal or greater size. the reason being is that it is cloning inodes and blocks, and not files. hate to say it, but i wish NGhost would figure out how to work with other IDs...hm.

hope this helps.

[oz]

I personally prefer cloning tools over reinstalls because while the fresh install does indeed only take around 15 or 20 minutes, all the tweaks that I perform after that can take anywhere from 3 to 5 hours, depending on what all I do and what distribution was installed. On the other hand, a fresh install that has been fully tweaked and then imaged with the proper cloning tool only takes about 3 to 4 minutes to restore from start to finish on my systems.

Overall, cloning has been a huge time saver for me.

[masam]

hehe, i remember when i worked for a company in Ohio getting laptops ready for sale. I would work on one for like about 3-5 hours as well, and it used to drive my boss nuts, until i could pop out about 10 to 20 in half an hour or so.....meh, go figure...