Multi Boot Backup..? [Solved]

[PennyRoyal]

Hi all,

I've just completed a complete reinstall of my OS's of choice and I haven't messed anything up... yet!

I have Sabayon 4.2 KDE, Mepis 8.0, and WinXP multi booting from a GRUB partition (meaning: NTFS,ext3,fat16 & swap partitions). Does anyone know of an application that will let me backup an image of the whole physical drive... ie: all partitions? I'm assuming this would require a sector by sector copy, as opposed to a file copy? I have (cough cough) Norton Ghost 14, I could run out of windows. Has anyone tried this before? Thanks in advance...

Penny

[tux_87]

Does anyone know of an application that will let me backup an image of the whole physical drive... ie: all partitions?

Check out clonezilla --> http://clonezilla.org/

I personally haven't used it but my flatmate and one of the guys at work swear by it. I'm pretty sure its a sector by sector copy although compression can be used.

Good Luck!

[joeoden]

Have a look at what kodiakmax suggested
viewtopic.php?f=59&t=16879&p=96726&hilit=backup#p96726

[albfneto]

I use.
Amanda and other Backup packages can be used, as well as commands but Clonezilla is the best and more easy alternative.
You may also, if you want, backup your entire HDD.
a advise only that if you have new file systems as Ext4, use only the last version of Clonezilla, the older ones are not more compatible.

[lazevedo]

yep, clonezilla is the best choice!

[PennyRoyal]

Thanks everybody! Looks like clonezilla will do the trick. I appreciate all the feedback.

Penny