Hello Todd, Give a look at the G4L project ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l ), maybe it is what you looking for... Regards! On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 16:59 -0800, 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 >