Re: backup question

["Gary Richardson" <gary.richardson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Do you need to shut your machine down to use clonezilla? After a quick skim of the site, I can't find anything that says you don't.

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Anne Wilson wrote:

I've had good results using Clonezilla for complete backup of OS+data.

Is there any compression?  Does it span multiple CDs if necessary?

It does an image copy and knows enough about most filesystems to only copy the used portions of the disk.  Yes it compresses, no it doesn't split - or write CD's directly.  It lets you store the image in a variety of places (network mount via samba, NFS, or ssh), local disks which could be USB external, etc.).  After the image is stored, you can use a command line to convert the image to a bootable DVD image containing clonezilla and the image. But it doesn't split and you have to use some other utility to burn the DVD.   It would probably work pretty well to install clonezilla to boot from a large USB disk where you could store images directly and restore from them.

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 Les Mikesell
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