hi all

looking for some linux software as a ISO for download, that will back up a complete OS weather it be linux or windows HD's must be able to restore OS back after clearing the HD

any ideas ?

TT ( karl )

Hello,

I use CloneZilla for that kind of backups and it does a great job.

Kind regards,

Eric

The question is, to what media do you want to back up.

If you simply want to make a clone, I should go for Puppy or something like that and use the DD command.
Keep in mind that the new drive should be at least as big as the old.(Else you have to shrink partitions)
Puppy also has a nice utility to make a compressed backup and put it back in place.

You can start Pup from CD or USB.

But for the DD command, you can use any linux live system.
There are also a lot of rescue cd's than can do the job.

CloudBuilder

As stated DD is everything you need. Here's an excellent paper on DD: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ommand-362506/

G4U is what I tend to consider also.

Really any distro made even floppy based one have dd. dd over ftp or nc to any networked share if you want or dd to a drive or file locally.

I always use dd. You can even pipe it to gzip to compress your backup.
Just be careful with it, they call it "dd" for a reason (actually, dd stands for "copy and convert", but its often called "data destroyer")
You can make things a little safer for yourself by omitting the "of=" option and compress your data at the same time:
Which will backup the first partition on your hard drive to a USB (assuming your USB is mounted at /media/USB)
Check that command before you run it, I wrote that from memory.

to restore your data, you can use a similar command:
Which will restore your image to the second partition of your hard drive
Warning: Be super careful with this command, make sure you are restoring from the right image and to the right partition, it can't be undone.