Hope this isn't to Off-Topic... but related info. Been watching this thread, and want to mention the methods that I have used. G4L and G4U can both do disk and partition images. I must point out that I am the current maintainer of the Free G4L. I develop the system on my Fedora machines, but it uses the kernel.org kernels. The program can be booted from the cd, or it can be added to a system by adding options to the grub menu, or even from windows using grub4dos. It is basically using the dd command to copy the sectors, and uses lzop, gzip, bzip2 or no compression on the image. It can backup to an ftp server, or to another disk or partition, or make a clone of a disk. It is not a file level backup, up disk or partition. I use it in my computer lab to backup the 80GB disk with 98, XP, and Fedora 10 in about 50 minutes making a 12GB image file on a 250GB disk on my AMD64 Fedora machine. It does work best if you clear unused space before doing an image to reduce space since the null filled sectors compress to almost nothing. The program is available on sourceforge and freshmeat. +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 7,566,804.7045 | EINSTEIN 2,416,953.8009 | ROSETTA 838,646.7327 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
