On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:
The clonezilla live project is a really nice way to do image-copies of machines: http://clonezilla.sourceforge.net/clonezilla-live/ but it's based on a Debian live OS which has some unfamiliar quirks. Has anyone built something like this on a Centos base?
For anyone who hasn't seen it, it can do whole disk or partition copies of windows and most Linux filesystems and it knows enough to only copy the used parts of the disk. Among other tricks, it can also build a bootable iso image containing itself and one or more images that you can load directly from the cd/dvd.
Seems similar to partimage. If you use Recovery Is Possible (RIP) you have a small image (77MB) that contains a recent kernel with all tools you can imagine (with ntfs, cifs, partimage, ...)
You can put RIP on a small USB stick, or ISO or PXE.