On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 17:13 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > Jeff Vian wrote: > > 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%. > > I think you must have missed the section on "compression=GZIP" in the > fileset options. See: > http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/dirdconf.html#FileSetResource > > Paul. > Thanks Paul, I will look at that again. Jeff
