Anyone have a backup & recovery plan for openSUSE?

[kahoona]

Anyone have a good backup & recovery plan for openSUSE? I'm looking for a way that I can backup my operating system. I don't need to backup all the filesystems, just the OS ones. My OS disk is only 40 gig (15 gig full) so space isn't too big of an issue. I have plenty of space on remote servers for NFS, SMB, or FTP backups.

I'm looking for the following information:
1. Is anyone backing up their system?
2. How are they doing it?
3. What is being backed up?
4. How could it be restored if your computer were destroyed or stolen?

I searched around google for a while but couldn't really find any good plans on how to do this for openSUSE.

[oz]

You could use Clonezilla, Ghost4Linux (g4l), PartImage, Norton Ghost, or Acronis TrueImage to make images of complete systems, partitions, or files, then restore the image(s) if the need arises. The first three apps above are native to Linux. The second two are windows apps, but they'll run off a CD.

Do a search of the forums and you'll find several recent threads regarding these apps and using them for backup purposes.

[docarockus]

Look at this thread:

Backup Software - SUSE Forums

-docarockus

[johnroberts]

...have a look at the links provided. I wrote a how-to on Clonezilla/DRBL/GParted. The backup/restore scenario is based on a typical disk cloning operation. In case of total hardware loss, I don't know if it will be sufficient, since ANY backup/restore will require that basic hardware must remain the same, especially at HAL level (e.g. you cannot go from a single core CPU to a twin core CPU...). This scenario however is totally suitable for a hard drive loss (which is the most common of all failures...). It allows to restore to a bigger hard disk which I would consider sufficient. Your 15GB of data will probably fit on a DVD5 and definitely on a DVD9 with bzip2 compression.


Good Luck

[kahoona]

After reading through a lot of the links to other forums, I installed "mondo". There are a few reasons:
1. Yast knew about it so it was an easy install.
2. It can run a backup while the system is running.
3. It can backup to the HD, directly to CD/DVD, or an ISO image.
4. The burned ISO images are bootable and the restore, from what I read, seems easy.

I'm going to try and get my hands on another "test" drive and see if it is as easy as it seems. Thanks for all the responses!