Backup tool
 

Is there any good tool to backup my entire harddrive (running only Suse 10) on a Windows XP computer, something similar to Norton Ghost?

Thanks..

Boot of a knoppix CD, mount a share on the windows box, fire up
partimage, and off you go.


Cheers,
Tink

The best backup is one that happens automatically at least once per day. In the Linux world, some purists might suggest you simply write a shell script and set it up to run under cron.

Either here or on UbuntuForums there was a thread on "sbackup". I installed it but have not yet tried it.

The REAL trick is get something that does incremental backups--ie it only copies files that have changed. I have not seen a free Linux app that does this.

The commercial product most often mentioned is Arkeia.

Here's the link for sbackup"

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sbackup/

Rsync can be used to incremental backups, it's pretty straightforward.

http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=inc...20with%20rsync

Correct--however it is not a backup **solution**---it is maybe part of a solution. You really need scheduling of automatic backup.

There are several options, try Amanda (free) http://www.amanda.org/

I fail to see how any of the suggestions should have the
slightest resemblance to Ghost ... OK, so what he's after
is a way to create an HDD image and NOT a backup solution :}
But still


Cheers,
Tink

Ah, yes, that would be different. Look at the man page for dd I guess.

try g4u when u want to make an image of your HD... g4u stands for 'ghost for unix'...

download and more:
http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

dar/kdar will do exactly what you want.