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Doctore · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:58 am Post subject:

partimage could be an solution. Link
http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page

Doctore

mhwelsh · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:13 am Post subject: Image software

mondo and all of its bits from Xandros Networks for images.

konserve from Xandros Networks for data dumping.

martin

shengchieh · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 12:39 pm Post subject:

See my webage,

http://shengchieh.50webs.com/index.html
-> hardware
-> Backups - HowTo

and

-> softwares
-> Backups

You shouldn't need to buy anything - there alot of good
free backup utilities. Also, you didn't mention how you
want to backup, i.e., backup to another hard disk, backup
to external CD/DVD, backup online, etc.

Sheng-Chieh
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TekMate · Xendrosian Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 1092 Location: MA

I like Mondo as well it is a lot like Ghost under that other OS.
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redrum · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:27 pm Post subject:

For commercial solutions, I'd recommend Acronis (Buy the CD only, not the downloadable version, since the DL version is Windows-only)...
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Doctore · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:58 pm Post subject:

There is one interesting tool called "Keep" (KDE-GUI) which uses Rdiff.

Gaytan · Xplorer Joined: 20 Feb 2007 Posts: 62

Hi robinsonjy,

Well about some commercial software. (if you have multiboot with windows)

After I installed Xandros (lilo on partition) and made a partition backup with Acronis True Image 8 I always had problems after a restore. I could recover by running the Xandros recovery procedure.

After some search on the Acronis forums it seems that TI8 (and Ti10 I also tested) apparently does not backup the boot part of the partition where LILO is written.

A friend of my had no problems as he was using Ghost 9. He also tested the latest Ghost12 version and this also worked perfectly.

So if you want to go for commercial software see if you can download a trial and test the software before you buy it!

molgen · Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 1:44 pm Post subject:

I use rsnapshot for nightly automated incremental backups. Free, comes with a sample config file that you can modify for your own needs. You can decide just what you want backed up.

Ambrusch · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 7:57 am Post subject: RSnapshot

How does rsnapshot work for you? Have you ever tried to restore a back-up with it?
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molgen · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 11:40 am Post subject:

I backup only my home directory to a separate drive dedicated to backups. With root privileges, I can use Xandros File Manager to access the backup drive and just copy over whatever I want, whether it's the latest entire backup or just a data subdirectory that I deleted and decided I wanted again a month later.

The only time I had a problem was when the backup drive had some bad sectors, and the backup process quit before completion. But I caught this in testing, used a different partition, and had no problems since.

As with any backup system, you have to periodically check or test to see that backups do actually occur and are complete. Rsnapshot also generates a log file that you can read to see if there's anything amiss.

jimallyn · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:36 pm Post subject:

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Jim
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Erich-H · Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 7:08 pm Post subject: Backup software

I use Acronis Disk Director 10. I just clone the whole drive. Then if I have a problem I "swap" drives. All I have to do then is run Xandros restore for Xandros to recognize the partitions. Takes less than 5 minutes to be up and running again!
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