Todd Cary wrote:

If I were to lose my main hard drive, I would like to have the opportunity to do the same as I can do using Windows: restore from my USB and have a working system.

If I were to rsync everything on the main drive (excluding the backup drive, of course and a few other directories) to my USB drive, could I restore using some CD based version of Linux e.g. Knoppix?

Todd

Todd,

I've used Ghost for Linux with great success, Windows machines as well. Read up about it here: http://freshmeat.net/projects/g4l/

Thanks!

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