[Discuss] OS image

[Murray Strome]

On 14-01-23 12:06 PM, George Farris wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 11:49 -0800, John Blomfield wrote:
>> I have now re-configured my all my desktop hard drives after my hard
>> drive failure. I also have programmed a very comprehensive cron job data
>> backup system for on site and off site. I had been testing openSuse 13.1
>> for a few months and decided it was ok to move up from 12.3, however,
>> installing and configuring all the application software is very, very
>> time consuming so I have been thinking it would be a good plan to
>> occasionally make a backup image of my OS partition.
>>
>> Question "What is the best way to capture an image of my OS?". I have
> I use Clonzilla. http://clonezilla.org/
>
> George
>
>
I don't know if it is the best way, but I always use "dd" from a Live 
CD/DVD of LINUX-- doesn't matter what version or distribution. I use 
this for the root directory of any LINUX OS and for Windows. I have had 
to restore Windows HDs from the image I created, and I do that with dd 
in the other direction.

Murray