Backups

[David Spake]

I know there are several utilities whereby you could
actually mount the backup image as a complete drive. 
Can't say that I've used any of them as most of our
stuff is NTFS related (thus we use NTFSClone).  At any
rate, I know that several of the utilities mentioned
in crash3m's post stated the possibility of mounting
the backup image as a full 'drive'.  Hate to think of
the access speed on a DVD+R/W, but it might be
something to consider for immediate quick access.

Dave

--- crash3m <crash3m at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've actually done this a few times, there are
> several tools available
> to you depending on your exact needs.  Look into
> Mondoarchive
> http://www.mondorescue.org, partimage
> http://www.partimage.org, and
> clonesys
> http://www.trickytools.com/php/clonesys.php
> 
> I personally used partimage, but it took a bit of
> fighting to get it
> to deal with soft-raid and LVM, but I got it done. 
> Mondo used to work
> well for me, but I fought with it for a week and got
> no where.  I of
> course found clonesys after the fact, so I cant
> offer an opinion on
> it.