I use partimage for this purpose, but it does have a few limitations: 1. The partition you're backing up or restoring has to be unmounted, so it can't be used on the root partition of a running system. I get around this by running partimage from a LiveDVD, though the inconvenience of booting into the live environment to make backups means I don't make backups as often as I should. 2. As far as I know, Partimage's operation is all or nothing. Creating a new backup copies everything from the target partition and there are no incremental backups, restoring a backup erases everything on the partition. For this reasons, I try to keep how much I have on my root partition as low as possible and have to remind myself to copy the contents of my home directory prior to restoring a backup. 3. As far as I know, partimage doesn't support ext4. My own system runs on ReiserFS, but I understand ext4 is a very common filesystem these days. On the upside, Partimage only copies the files instead of every individual block, so it's much faster than dd, produces much smaler uncompress images, and can compress the images it makes directly. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list