[CentOS] The equivalent of Ghosting the system

Wed Jan 31 03:41:15 UTC 2007
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

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?
There is partimage-static on DAG's repo, but it cannot 'look' into a LVM 
partition, it seems.  And I need that....
>
> Todd
>