I am currently in the process of setting up a server with a SCSI hard disk. This is the only drive in the machine. I want to be able to image some of the partitions on this drive to allow for an easy system restore.

I have two drive imaging packages. Partition Magic's Drive Image 5 which will read EXT2 (not EXT3 or Reiser) but not write to it meaning that I will have to create a FAT/NTFS partition to write to solely for the created image files.

I also have Paragon's Drive Backup 5.0 which claims to read and write to all linux filesystems. It boots of a CD into it's own linux OS. This seems to work fine on my dual boot machine with an IDE hard disk meaning that I can see all the drives. When I try it on the server machine with a SCSI hard disk it says that there is no Hard Drive installed!?

So, getting to my questions...

I am struggling to mount the drive from the command line. What is the SCSI device called? Is it sda1, because I can't see that in /dev/?
I have

• /dev/scd0
• /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/+cd
• /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/-generic

If I locate the device where do I mount it?

Thank you.

PS If anyone has any recommendations for alternative imaging software I would love to hear them.

If it's the only hard disk on the machine, how can you not know what it's called? Where is your root partition mounted? What does it say in /etc/fstab ?
As for software to image a partition, what's wrong with good old tar?
tar cjf folder.tar.bz2 folder
That command will create a tar.bz2 archive of the folder you name, so if you have a partition mounted at /mnt/example
cd /mnt
tar cjf example.tar.bz2 example
then to expand that somewhere else, mount a different partition on /mnt/example then
cd /mnt
tar xjf example.tar.bz2