On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 11:36 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > Gerry Doris wrote: > > I'm looking for an application that will create an image of a full > > Fedora drive that can be used for either a bare metal restore or can be > > used to restore individual directories or files. I use Partition Image > > for this for my Window boxes. > > > > I've tried using Partimage. It's a great program but it only creates > > images of complete partitions and can only restore the complete > > partition...no directory or file access. It looks like G4U and G4L > > actually use Partimage so I assume they work the same. > > > > I don't want to use either CD's or DVD's. I would like to > > backup/restore either to another hard drive on the system being backed > > up or across my network to a server. > > > > Any reommendations would be appreciated. > > bacula can backup to disks on the same or other servers. Moreover, it > keeps a database of the backed-up files, allowing retrieval of > individual files by date if required. Bare metal restores are also possible. > > Highly recommended. > > http://www.bacula.org/ > > Paul. > I tried bacula and went back to mondorescue. It seemed bacula does no compression so it relies on the native compression on the tape drives to save space. It wasted a lot of drive space to do a backup to drive. MondoRescue OTOH does compression to the level (0 - 9) you specify so the savings in drive space for the backups on my system was more than 50%.
